Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner is a Business Intelligence Developer at Progressive Insurance. He enjoys solving challenging data transformations with T-SQL and optimizing for query performance. In addition to BI development, Bert loves building ASP.NET MVC web apps and building Internet of Things projects.

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Multiple Identity Inserts

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This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server's SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement.
I started with two tables with identity columns...

2019-06-25

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Multiple Identity Inserts

Watch this week's video on YouTube
This week I want to share something that surprised me about using SQL Server's SET IDENTITY_INSERT statement.
I started with two tables with identity columns...

2019-06-25

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Joker's Wild

This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).

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Table of contents:

What is...

2019-06-11

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Joker's Wild

This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).

Watch this week's video on YouTube
Table of contents:

What is...

2019-06-11

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CHOOSE() in SQL Server

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. While I know I don’t utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I’m at least aware that those features...

2019-06-04

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CHOOSE() in SQL Server

Watch this week's video on YouTube
While I know I don't utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I'm at least aware that those features exist.
This...

2019-06-04

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CHOOSE() in SQL Server

Watch this week's video on YouTube
While I know I don't utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I'm at least aware that those features exist.
This...

2019-06-04

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Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting

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The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...

T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough

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Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

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Question of the Day

Comparing Images

I am building an ETL process between these tables in SQL Server 2022 set to 160 compatibility level: 

CREATE TABLE Image_Staging
( imageid     INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT Image_StagingPK PRIMARY KEY
, imagestatus TINYINT
, imagebinary IMAGE);
GO

CREATE TABLE Images
( imageid       INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ImagesPK PRIMARY KEY
, imagestatus   TINYINT
, imagemodified DATETIME
, imagebinary   IMAGE);
GO
I want to run this query to check if the images already loaded exist. This will help me decide if I need to insert or update an image. What happens with this query? 
SELECT i.imageid
FROM
  dbo.Image_Staging AS ist
  INNER JOIN dbo.Images AS i
    ON ist.imagebinary = i.imagebinary;

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