Mircea Dragan

Mircea Dragan is a Senior Computer Scientist with strong mathematical background, and extensive industrial and academic experience in domains including data security, fraud detection, anomaly detection, big data, event processing in streaming applications, database management, database migration and real time processing. Mircea has 18 years of hands-on programming experience in large international projects, as individual contributor, team member and team leader. He is also an experienced speaker, especially for academic audiences.

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Category	Tip Title
Comparison Data and Objects	Compare SQL Server Databases - Part 2
Comparison Data and Objects	How to Compare Database Schema in SQL Server - Part 1
Comparison Data and Objects	How to Sync Two SQL Server Databases – Part 3
Import and Export	Export Data from SQL Server to Excel and Simulate COMPUTE BY Clause
Import and Export	Export SQL Server Data to Excel and Add New Columns with C#
Import and Export	Export SQL Server Data to Multiple Excel Worksheets with C#
Import and Export	Export SQL Server Table to Excel with C#
Import and Export	Import multiple Excel Worksheets into multiple SQL Server Database Tables
Microsoft Access Integration	Convert MS Access to SQL Server with Always Encrypted Database
Microsoft Excel Integration	How to Make a Chart in Excel from a SQL Server Database
Scripts	Save SQL Server Database Structure as Json
Tools	Find a String in an SQL Database Table
TSQL	Using SQL Server ROLL UP to Get Similar Results of COMPUTE BY

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