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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XmlReader vs XmlDocument Performance

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

Recently I have been working on a project where I needed to parse XML files that were between 5mb and 20mb in size. Performance was critical for the project,...

2016-11-24

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Coffee's Variety Problem

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Bert Wagner

Spaghetti Sauce Origins
During the 1970s consumers had a limited number of spaghetti sauces that they could purchase at their local supermarket. Each store-bought sauce tasted the same, developed in test...

2016-11-15

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3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Entity Framework

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Bert Wagner

Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's object-relational-mapping tool (ORM) that allows programmers to easily map database objects to C# object models. What attracts developers to Entity Framework is the automatic...

2016-04-30

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