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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IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs: or...

2019-05-13 (first published: )

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Correlated Subqueries vs Derived Tables

Correlated subqueries provide an intuitive syntax for writing queries that return related data. However, they often perform poorly due to needing to execute once for every value they join on....

2019-05-07 (first published: )

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Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...

2019-05-07

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Blog Post

Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb....

2019-05-07

239 reads

Blog Post

Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...

2019-05-07

8 reads

Blog Post

IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week's video on YouTube
When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs:
WHERE Col1 IN...

2019-04-30

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Blog Post

IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week's video on YouTube
When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs:
WHERE Col1 IN...

2019-04-30

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Window Functions vs GROUP BYs

There are many options available for improving the performance of a query: indexes, statistics, configuration settings, etc… However, not all environments allow you to use those features (eg. vendor...

2019-04-25 (first published: )

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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance

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Question of the Day

Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance

I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:

SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:
Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.
What is wrong?

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