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 Execution Plan Operators

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Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans

When examining...

2019-08-13

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Execution Plans: Statistics

Watch this week’s Statistics video on YouTube. Last week we looked at what execution plans are and how you can view them. This week I want to discuss what data...

2019-08-12 (first published: )

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Blog Post

Execution Plans: Statistics

Watch this week's video on YouTube

Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans

Last week...

2019-07-30

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Blog Post

Execution Plans: Statistics

Watch this week's video on YouTube

Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans

Last week...

2019-07-30

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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator

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Your Value from a Conference

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UNISTR Basics

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UNISTR Basics

What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)

SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A:   B:  

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