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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Moving 1/3 of a heap

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A Giant Heap
Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don't ask me why this 3.5 billion...

2020-07-22

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SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks

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Pop quiz: What will be the output of the below three statements?
DECLARE @val_varchar varchar(3) = '100';
DECLARE @val_bigint bigint = 100;
DECLARE @val_tinyint tinyint = 100;

PRINT('varchar...

2019-12-17

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The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory

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SQL Server 2025 section missing?

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A design question in a parent child relationship

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

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Hyperscale Replicas III

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

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