Aubrey Love

Aubrey Love
Aubrey Love is a self-taught DBA with more than six years of experience designing, creating, and monitoring SQL Server databases as a DBA/Business Intelligence Specialist. Certificates include MCSA, A+, Linux+, and Google Map Tools with 40+ years in the computer industry. Aubrey first started working on PC’s when they were introduced to the public in the late 70's.

linkedin 

Aubrey Love has been working on PC’s since they were invented back in ‘70s. Most of my career has been dealing with the hardware side building, designing and testing. Having worked for three years at NASA in the IT department, building, upgrading and maintaining the computers back in the ‘80s, I gained a better understanding of some of the, now antiquated, programming languages. I also spent five years at Dell as an engineer, tester and lab manager. Later, I worked for General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin designing, building and testing F-16 (fighter jet) simulators. AKA, the ultimate arcade game. Although my early years were on the hardware side, I did delve into some programming languages such as DOS, BASIC/Q-Basic, COBAL and Fortran.

In recent years I have migrated more to the software side in the spectrum of programming learning the more modern languages while spending less time on the hardware side. I have learned to program with T-SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and C#. I currently maintain a website/blog for general tech tips which I started while writing for a local military base newspaper. I was asked to take on that task just after I retired from the military as a 20-year vet.

I am currently a Business Intelligence Specialist working primarily with T-SQL and C#. I build and maintain relational databases that are referenced via C# programs that I design as customer friendly interfaces. I started off with databases some years ago with Microsoft Access and moved onto a more user-friendly database creator called Filemaker Pro that utilizes the proprietary DRACO database engine. In recent years I have once again transitioned to my new, and hopefully, permanent home of T-SQL. I am in my fourth year as a T-SQL programmer and continue to learn every day.

My own personal philosophy; “never stop learning, living, laughing”.

2023 Awards   MSSQLTips award

2022 Awards   MSSQLTips award

Category Tip Title
Database Administration How to Shrink SQL Server Database Files
Database Design Understanding SQL Server Schemas
Encryption Encrypt SQL Server Stored Procedures to Protect Source Code
SQL Server Configurations SQL Server Collation Overview and Examples
SQL Server Management Studio How to create a table using SQL Server Management Studio
Stored Procedures SQL Stored Procedure Input and Output Parameters, Types, Error Handling, Security and more
Synonyms Create a SQL Alias using SQL Server Synonyms to access to Tables, Views, User-Defined Functions, Stored Procedures
Triggers An Introduction to SQL Triggers
TSQL Creating SQL VIEWs with T-SQL
TSQL Differences with Delete vs Truncate in SQL Server
TSQL Drop All Tables in SQL Server and Generate a List of Objects to Drop
TSQL How to Create a Bar Chart with SQL Code
TSQL How To Create a Table in SQL Server
TSQL Learning the SQL GROUP BY Clause
TSQL Split Delimited String into Columns in SQL Server with PARSENAME
TSQL SQL CAST Function for Data Type Conversions
TSQL SQL COUNT Function
TSQL SQL Server .WRITE() Function to Update VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) Data Types
TSQL SQL STUFF vs SQL REPLACE vs SQL WRITE in SQL Server
TSQL SQL UPDATE from SELECT, JOIN or MERGE
TSQL SQL WAITFOR Command to Delay SQL Code Execution
TSQL SQL WHERE IS NOT NULL for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
TSQL SQL WHERE LIKE to Construct More Efficient Queries
TSQL The Basics of SQL Server Variables
TSQL The Difference Between SQL Statement, Command, Clause, Batch, etc.
No Records Found
No Records Found
CategoryGroup Category (articles)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Administration (31)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Development (94)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Dimensions (16)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Measure Groups (7)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Performance (14)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Security (7)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Tools (1)
Analysis Services Analysis Services Tutorials (6)
Analysis Services Cortana (5)
Analysis Services Performance Point (4)
Business Intelligence Big Data (25)
Business Intelligence Data Warehousing (6)
Cloud Amazon AWS (51)
Cloud Apache Spark (9)
Cloud Azure (146)
Cloud Azure Backup and Restore (25)
Cloud Azure Cosmos DB (14)
Cloud Azure Data Factory (69)
Cloud Azure Databricks (26)
Cloud Azure Integration Services (14)
Cloud Azure SQL Database (48)
Cloud Azure SQL Managed Instance (2)
Cloud Azure Synapse Analytics (39)
Cloud Cloud Strategy (20)
Data Quality Data Quality Services (9)
Data Quality Master Data Services (41)
Database Administration Amazon AWS RDS (1)
Database Administration Availability Groups (79)
Database Administration Backup (78)
Database Administration Central Management Servers (10)
Database Administration Clustering (74)
Database Administration Comparison Data and Objects (14)
Database Administration Compression (22)
Database Administration Contained Databases (4)
Database Administration Containers (12)
Database Administration Database Administration (197)
Database Administration Database Configurations (19)
Database Administration Database Console Commands DBCCs (25)
Database Administration Database Mail (18)
Database Administration Database Mirroring (33)
Database Administration DBA Best Practices (39)
Database Administration Dedicated Administrator Connection (4)
Database Administration Deprecated Features (5)
Database Administration DevOps (36)
Database Administration Disaster Recovery (23)
Database Administration Error Logs (11)
Database Administration Express Edition (16)
Database Administration Extended Events (22)
Database Administration FILESTREAM (9)
Database Administration Fragmentation and Index Maintenance (27)
Database Administration Google Cloud (5)
Database Administration Hardware (14)
Database Administration High Availability (3)
Database Administration Indexing (87)
Database Administration Install and Uninstall (32)
Database Administration Licensing (4)
Database Administration Linked Servers (18)
Database Administration Locking and Blocking (40)
Database Administration Log Shipping (18)
Database Administration Maintenance (34)
Database Administration Monitoring (117)
Database Administration Other Database Platforms (85)
Database Administration Partitioning (17)
Database Administration Performance Data Warehouse (4)
Database Administration Performance Tuning (124)
Database Administration Policy Based Management (29)
Database Administration PowerShell (130)
Database Administration Profiler and Trace (20)
Database Administration Query Store (7)
Database Administration Recovery Models (4)
Database Administration Referential Integrity (4)
Database Administration Replication (75)
Database Administration Resource Governor (5)
Database Administration Restore (42)
Database Administration Snowflake (1)
Database Administration SQL Server 2016 (96)
Database Administration SQL Server 2017 (44)
Database Administration SQL Server 2019 (20)
Database Administration SQL Server 2022 (22)
Database Administration SQL Server Configurations (75)
Database Administration SQL Server on Linux (76)
Database Administration StreamInsight (2)
Database Administration System Databases (31)
Database Administration Upgrades and Migrations (54)
Database Administration Virtualization (25)
Database Administration Windows Internal Database (1)
Database Development Application Development (40)
Database Development Artificial Intelligence (1)
Database Development Azure Functions (7)
Database Development Change Data Capture (15)
Database Development Common Runtime Language (13)
Database Development Common Table Expressions (3)
Database Development Constraints (19)
Database Development Data Cleansing for Validation (2)
Database Development Data Science (3)
Database Development Data Types (18)
Database Development Database Design (77)
Database Development Dates (54)
Database Development Debugging (4)
Database Development Dynamic Management Views and Functions (33)
Database Development Dynamic SQL (7)
Database Development Entity Framework (13)
Database Development Error Handling (10)
Database Development Full Text Search (21)
Database Development Functions System (72)
Database Development Functions User Defined UDF (41)
Database Development Identities (17)
Database Development Import and Export (77)
Database Development In Memory OLTP (32)
Database Development JOIN Tables (21)
Database Development Language Integrated Query LINQ (7)
Database Development Microsoft Access Integration (8)
Database Development Microsoft Excel Integration (41)
Database Development Microsoft Flow (1)
Database Development Paging (5)
Database Development Python (72)
Database Development Query Optimization (14)
Database Development Query Plans (20)
Database Development R Language (11)
Database Development Scripts (35)
Database Development Service Broker (11)
Database Development Spatial Data Storage (9)
Database Development SQL Injection (5)
Database Development SQL Server Management Objects SMO (3)
Database Development Stored Procedures (29)
Database Development Synonyms (5)
Database Development Table Valued Parameters (4)
Database Development Temp Tables (10)
Database Development Temporal Tables (13)
Database Development Testing (31)
Database Development Transactions (9)
Database Development Triggers (44)
Database Development TSQL (365)
Database Development User Defined Type UDT (3)
Database Development Views (16)
Database Development XML (14)
Integration Services Data Transformation Services (5)
Integration Services Integration Services Administration (10)
Integration Services Integration Services Analysis Services Tasks (5)
Integration Services Integration Services Best Practices (12)
Integration Services Integration Services Configuration Options (22)
Integration Services Integration Services Connection Managers (5)
Integration Services Integration Services Control Flow Transformations (14)
Integration Services Integration Services Data Flow Transformations (19)
Integration Services Integration Services Development (110)
Integration Services Integration Services Email (3)
Integration Services Integration Services Error Handling (8)
Integration Services Integration Services Excel (14)
Integration Services Integration Services Execute Package Options (8)
Integration Services Integration Services Import and Export Wizard (2)
Integration Services Integration Services NULL Management (4)
Integration Services Integration Services Oracle (4)
Integration Services Integration Services Performance (12)
Integration Services Integration Services Security (7)
Integration Services Integration Services Upgrade (4)
Power Platform Power Apps (20)
Power Platform Power BI (147)
Power Platform Power BI Charts (51)
Power Platform Power BI Formatting (16)
Professional Development Professional Development Books (3)
Professional Development Professional Development Branding (14)
Professional Development Professional Development Career (18)
Professional Development Professional Development Career Planning (16)
Professional Development Professional Development Career Transition (4)
Professional Development Professional Development Certifications (50)
Professional Development Professional Development Community (16)
Professional Development Professional Development Conferences (2)
Professional Development Professional Development Interview Questions BI (18)
Professional Development Professional Development Interview Questions DBA (23)
Professional Development Professional Development Interview Questions Developer (9)
Professional Development Professional Development Interviewing (39)
Professional Development Professional Development Job Search (18)
Professional Development Professional Development Management (11)
Professional Development Professional Development Recruiters (6)
Professional Development Professional Development Resume (13)
Professional Development Professional Development Skills Development (18)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Administration (20)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Analysis Services (4)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Best Practices (6)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Charts (25)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Configuration (10)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Custom Report (2)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Dashboard (1)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Data Sources (10)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Development (38)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Drill Through (4)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Dynamic Reports (11)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Filtering (3)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Formatting (26)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Functions (5)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Images (2)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Installation (9)
Reporting Services Reporting Services KPI (5)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Maps (4)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Migration (5)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Monitoring (5)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Network Load Balancing (4)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Overview (5)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Parameters (15)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Performance (6)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Report Builder (9)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Report Models (1)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Security (8)
Reporting Services Reporting Services SharePoint (1)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Subreports (4)
Reporting Services Reporting Services Tutorials (1)
Security Auditing and Compliance (46)
Security Encryption (38)
Security Security (196)
Security Surface Area Configuration Manager (4)
SharePoint SharePoint (131)
SharePoint SharePoint Administration (46)
SharePoint SharePoint Configuration (27)
SharePoint Sharepoint Design (46)
SharePoint SharePoint Document Management (20)
Tools Azure Data Studio (17)
Tools SQL Operations Studio (11)
Tools SQL Server Agent (93)
Tools SQL Server Management Studio (78)
Tools SQL Server Management Studio Configuration (22)
Tools SQL Server Management Studio Shortcuts (9)
Tools Tools (33)










get free sql tips
agree to terms