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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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...

2019-09-10

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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...

2019-09-10

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SQL Server Execution Plan Operators

Watch this week’s Execution Plan Operators episode on YouTube. SQL Server Execution Plan Operators When examining a query’s execution plan, certain operators tend to crop up over and over...

2019-08-26 (first published: )

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SQL Server Execution Plan Operators

Watch this week's video on YouTube

Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans

When examining...

2019-08-13

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SQL Server Execution Plan Operators

Watch this week's video on YouTube

Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans

When examining...

2019-08-13

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Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting

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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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The Hash Join I

What are the two inputs called to a hash join operation in SQL Server? (choose 2)

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