Chris Yates

Chris Yates is a Database Administration Manager with over thirteen years of experience in the SQL industry. His experience includes design and implementation of both OLTP and OLAP solutions as well as assessment and implementation of SQL Server environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions accompanied by a strong development background. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on several SQL forums, creating “The SQL Professor”, and speaking at several SQL functions. His passion and focus is not only with technology but also helping others along their way and career path.

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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

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is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?

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is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...

Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column

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Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...

any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp

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hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...

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Question of the Day

What is the PRODUCT

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

CREATE TABLE Numbers
( n INT)
GO
INSERT dbo.Numbers
(
n
)
VALUES
(1), (2), (3)
GO
SELECT PRODUCT(n)
FROM dbo.Numbers

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