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 – Notes to my past self and from my future self

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It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw...

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me

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The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike...

A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193

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This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he...

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Forums

This doesn't make sense to me - making me crazy - er

By krypto69

Hi So I have the below select query that won't return results if I...

Catalog max connection pool size: 100

By Pete Bishop

Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...

CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format

By tylerschuler75

I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...

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Question of the Day

Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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