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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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

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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

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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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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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Creating JSON I

On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:

SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver')
GO

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