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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Should You Use Index Hints?

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One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...

2018-07-31

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T-SQL Tuesday #104 Roundup

This month's T-SQL Tuesday topic asked "What code would you hate to live without?" Turns out you like using script and code to automate boring, repetitive, and error-prone tasks.
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2018-07-17

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T-SQL Tuesday #104 Roundup

This month's T-SQL Tuesday topic asked "What code would you hate to live without?" Turns out you like using script and code to automate boring, repetitive, and error-prone tasks.
Thank...

2018-07-17

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