Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner is a Business Intelligence Developer at Progressive Insurance. He enjoys solving challenging data transformations with T-SQL and optimizing for query performance. In addition to BI development, Bert loves building ASP.NET MVC web apps and building Internet of Things projects.

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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user’s input...

2019-07-03 (first published: )

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Joker’s Wild

This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker’s Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter). Watch it here! Table of contents: What is...

2019-06-25 (first published: )

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Multiple Identity Inserts

Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server's SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement.
I started with two tables with identity columns...

2019-06-25

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Blog Post

Multiple Identity Inserts

Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server's SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement.
I started with two tables with identity columns...

2019-06-25

23 reads

Blog Post

Joker's Wild

This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).

Watch this week's video on YouTube
Table of contents:

What is...

2019-06-11

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Blogs

The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory

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I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...

Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link

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When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....

Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?

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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...

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Forums

Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works

By dbakevlar

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...

SQL Server 2025 section missing?

By deubel_m

Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?

A design question in a parent child relationship

By eichnerm

I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...

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Question of the Day

Hyperscale Replicas III

In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?

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