Simpson's Paradox
This article is a case study and an attempt to explain an interesting phenomenon with data anomalies that is commonly called Simpson's Paradox.
2017-01-10
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Mala Mahadevan
2016 – A Year to remember
2016 has undoubtedly been a landmark year in my life. To me it marked my first conscious entry into mid...
2016-12-31
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Internal Query Processor Error with ColumnStore Indexes
SQL Server 2016 does not allow computed columns to co exist with columnstore indexes and clustered btree indexes on same table.
2016-12-29
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Multivariate Variable Analysis using R
So far I’ve worked on simple analytical techniques using one or two variables in a dataset. This article is a...
2016-12-05
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Associative Analytics: Two sample T Test
In the previous post we looked at a one way T-Test. A one way T Test helped us determine if...
2016-11-25 (first published: 2016-11-21)
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PASSion Award and what it means to me
2016 is going to be a special year in my life. There was an article on Oscar awards a while...
2016-11-04 (first published: 2016-10-31)
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Days 1,2 and 3 of PASS Summit 2016
Today is Thursday, October 27th already. For some of us the summit begins monday – with precons and PASS Volunteering related meetings...
2016-10-27
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Sending Trevor love…
As some of you may be aware – fellow SQL family member, PASS Director, SQL Server MVP, founder of SQL Cruise...
2016-10-26
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Basic Data Manipulation for Relational Data in R
In this post I will attempt to explore simple commands to manipulate data pulled in from a SQL database into R.
2016-10-20
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TSQL Tuesday #83 – The Stats update solution
TSQL Tuesday is a monthly blog part hosted by a different blogger every month – it was started by Adam Machanic....
2016-10-11
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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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