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.

QA, Utility Databases, and Job Executions

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Sometimes we, as data professionals, have to think outside the box. I know, crazy idea right? Each shop and situation...

2017-04-26

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SQL Doc by RedGate

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

I recently was on a call where a technical unit indicated they did not receive any form of documentation around...

2017-04-24 (first published: 2017-04-19)

1,316 reads

Don’t Duck On Responsibilities

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Being a data professional you assume a certain amount of responsibility. It often requires having the right attitude and an...

2017-04-17 (first published: 2017-04-10)

1,383 reads

T-SQL Tuesday #89 Invitation – The times they are a-changing

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

This month’s topic by Koen Verbeeck (B|T) is based around times that are a changing. To break it down somewhat...

2017-04-11

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Are You Wasting Energy?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Often times we as leaders within our respective shops tend to waste our time focusing on the wrong things. Think...

2017-04-06

372 reads

Is There A Threat Inside?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

If you’ve been involved in technology for any length of time you are aware of outside threats to your network...

2017-04-05

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How I Became A…SQL Server Data Professional

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Last night I saw a tweet from Matt Gordon (b|t); the topic caught my eye – “How I Became A…SQL Server...

2017-04-04

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What Is SQL Saturday?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

I was recently approached and asked, “What is SQL Saturday? I actually get asked that question more times than not...

2017-04-03

381 reads

The Pen Cap

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

This post is for all you up and coming data professionals out there. Over the course of the last week...

2017-03-21

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Backup/Restore–What’s My Status?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

The day begins and you find yourself going through a list in your mind of things that need to be...

2017-02-02 (first published: 2017-01-26)

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Blogs

The Benefits of Teaching

By Brian Kelley

Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...

Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!

By DataOnWheels

I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...

The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says

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Forums

Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey with dbt (Data Build Tool) on SQL Server

By ashok.gadiparthi

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey...

Putting the Player with the Number

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Putting the Player with the...

Your Security Checkup

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Your Security Checkup, which is...

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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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