Andy Warren

I'm Andy Warren, currently a SQL Server trainer with End to End Training. Over the past few years I've been a developer, DBA, and IT Director. I was one of the original founders of SQLServerCentral.com and helped grow that community from zero to about 300k members before deciding to move on to other ventures.

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The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando

Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last year to a semi structured plan that was mainly...

2020-12-20

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The Future of PASS

2020 has been a tough year for PASS. It’s primary fund raiser – the PASS Summit – was converted to a virtual event that attracted fewer attendees and far...

2020-12-04 (first published: )

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Serious Thoughts About PASS

Back when Covid started I guessed that this might be yet another live-or-die challenge for PASS. PASS is heavily dependent on Summit revenue and uses it to fund all...

2020-11-23 (first published: )

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Blogs

How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL

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I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...

T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup

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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...

Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access

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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...

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Compare rows within the same table

By SQL Bee

I have a table. Structure in script below. I have to compare and see...

Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?

By Brandie Tarvin

I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...

how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?

By stan

i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...

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Question of the Day

A Strange Result

What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?

select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';

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