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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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs

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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT)...

2019-03-05 (first published: )

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Why make?

This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way...

2019-03-01 (first published: )

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Searching Complex JSON Data

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Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
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2019-02-26

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Blog Post

Searching Complex JSON Data

Watch this week's video on YouTube
Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
It's...

2019-02-26

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Blogs

A New Word: Semaphorism

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semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...

SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates

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This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...

Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents

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(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...

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Pay for Performance

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Helping an English Student with R

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Adding Bits I

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Question of the Day

Adding Bits I

I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest]
(
[insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()),
[a] [bit] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
My application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
    insertdate,
    a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO

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