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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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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Blog Post

SQL Server Converts Numbers to Asterisks

Watch this week's video on YouTube
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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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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