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 Quick Tips

Earlier this year I made a series of videos that were played before the start of several DBA Fundamentals presentations. These videos gave viewers something SQL related to watch while the...

2019-09-24 (first published: )

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SQL Server's "Wrong" Math

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2019-09-24

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Blog Post

SQL Server's "Wrong" Math

Watch this week's video on YouTube
A couple of weeks ago I decided to rebuild my recording studio by getting rid of my fabric backdrop and replacing it with a...

2019-09-24

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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row

This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...

2019-09-19 (first published: )

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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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Adding Bits I

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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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