SQL Saturdays – down memory lane
A casual twitter-conversation with Karla Landrum and some other peeps led me down memory lane on older events. Our SQL...
2017-05-01
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Mala Mahadevan
Normal approximation to binomial distribution using T-SQL and R
In the previous post I demonstrated the use of binomial formula to calculate probabilities of events occurring in certain situations....
2017-04-17
1,428 reads
The Binomial Formula with T-SQL and R
In a previous post I explained the basics of probability. In this post I will use some of those principles to...
2017-04-17 (first published: 2017-04-10)
1,920 reads
Sampling Distribution and Central Limit Theorem
In this post am going to explain (in highly simplified terms) two very important statistical concepts – the sampling distribution and central...
2017-04-03
696 reads
Basics of Probability
In this post am going to introduce into some of the basic principles of probability – and use it in other posts...
2017-03-30 (first published: 2017-03-20)
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Generating Frequency Table
This week’s blog post is rather simple. One of the main characteristics of a data set involving classes, or discrete...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-06)
8,330 reads
TSQL2sday – Daily database WTF
This month’s TSQL Tuesday is organized by Kennie T Pontoppidan(t) – the topic is ‘Daily Database WTF‘ – or a horror story...
2017-03-12
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The Empirical Rule
I am resuming technical blogging after a gap of nearly a month. I will continue to blog my re learning...
2017-03-02 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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SQL Cruise 2017 – Western Carribean – my experience
As some readers may know, I am a regular attendee on SQL Cruise s for 8 years now. SQLCruise is...
2017-02-19
616 reads
My Epic Life Quest
I have always maintained a private bucket list. I have not had the courage to actually put it down in...
2017-01-13 (first published: 2017-01-02)
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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