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.

Blog Post

AI Innovation in Microsoft Keynote

I’m thrilled to be covering the Microsoft Keynote: Fuel AI Innovation with Azure Databases on Day 1 of the PASS Data Community Summit. Data is the driving force behind innovation, powering...

2024-11-18 (first published: )

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How Can Data Empower Leaders

Using data effectively, leaders can make better decisions, drive innovation, and inspire trust. What is leadership through data? Leadership that utilizes data is the ability to use data as...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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Blogs

KDA: Echoes of Deception - Onboarding

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I’ll walk through the KDA UI and tackle the first challenge before diving into...

Kusto Detective Agency - Intro

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The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes

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Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes...

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How to take a backup as a .bak file while omitting some tables?

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Hi Guys, I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but let me...

Life Moves Pretty Fast

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Parse XML data from SQL table using temp tables and variables

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Hello SSC, Happy Friday! I have to optimize a process that uses dynamic SQL...

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Question of the Day

Multiple Collations

Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?

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WHERE ColumnA = ( 'abc' COLLATE French_CI_AS) COLLATE French_CS_AS
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