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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Joining on NULLs

It’s important to be aware of columns that allow NULL values since SQL Server may handle NULLs differently than you might expect. Today I want to look at what...

2019-03-26

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Joining on NULLs

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It's important to be aware of columns that allow NULL values since SQL Server may handle NULLs differently than you might expect.
Today I want...

2019-03-26

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Blog Post

Joining on NULLs

Watch this week's video on YouTube
It's important to be aware of columns that allow NULL values since SQL Server may handle NULLs differently than you might expect.
Today I want...

2019-03-26

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Dipping into the Cookie Jar

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O'Neill.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and...

2019-03-12

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Blog Post

Dipping into the Cookie Jar

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O'Neill.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and...

2019-03-12

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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