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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SELECT Expression Execution Order

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube! Today I want to share with you an interesting observation I made about SELECT expression execution order. I was working on writing a...

2019-07-23 (first published: )

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Multiple Identity Inserts

Watch this week’s video on YouTube. This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server’s SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement. I started with two tables with...

2019-07-10 (first published: )

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Trailing Spaces in SQL Server

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user’s input...

2019-07-03 (first published: )

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Joker’s Wild

This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker’s Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter). Watch it here! Table of contents: What is...

2019-06-25 (first published: )

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Multiple Identity Inserts

Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server's SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement.
I started with two tables with identity columns...

2019-06-25

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Blogs

T-SQL Tuesday #174 – My Favorite Interview Question

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This month is a great topic to me. I think growing and improving your...

T-SQL Tuesday #174: Job Interview Questions

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Once upon a time, I used to think of difficult technical questions to ask...

Power BI: Refreshable Excel Files in PBI Service

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Ever since Excel made its debut in the 1980’s, it has been used as...

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Forums

Help on grouping to sets of rows in my sql data

By Mond

Hello I need help on writing this query. This is what i need. I...

SSIS Connecting to Azure SQL Managed Instance w/ MFA

By tjcavins

We've been testing out Azure SQL Managed Instance and created SSIS packages to run...

Summarizing Raw Sales Data with Group Summaries and Final Summary

By Paul Stasny

Greetings, I need to transform data returned in a query from several tables as...

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Question of the Day

The Query Traceflag

If I want to enable a trace flag for a specific query, how do I do it?

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