Confidence Intervals for a proportion – using R
What is the difference between reading numbers as they are presented, and interpreting them in a mature, deeper way? One...
2017-09-28 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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Mala Mahadevan
What is networking, really?
I am still trying to get up to speed on blogging after a gap. Today I managed to push myself...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-10)
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14 years of Summit…
I have been trying to get my blogging going again after a gap of two months. It has been incredibly...
2017-09-04
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Getting back to blogging
The past two months have been very hectic for me. I had an unexpected job offer towards end of July,...
2017-08-28
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Understanding Relative Risk – with T-SQL
In this post we will explore a common statistical term – Relative Risk, otherwise called Risk Factor. Relative Risk is a...
2017-06-21 (first published: 2017-06-19)
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Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel Method with T-SQL and R – Part I
This test is an extension of the Chi Square test I blogged of earlier. This is applied when we have...
2017-06-12
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Dataset for Cochran-Mantel-Hanzel Test
Below is the script to create the table and dataset I used. This is just test data and not copied...
2017-06-12
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Fischer’s Exact Test – with T-SQL and R
This post is a long overdue second part to the post on Chi Square Test that I did a few months...
2017-05-31 (first published: 2017-05-22)
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SQL Saturday Louisville precon – interview Andy Leonard
This will be year #9 of sql saturdays in Louisville. Every year (starting with 3rd or 4th), it has been...
2017-05-08
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The Birthday Problem – with T-SQL and R
When I was on SQLCruise recently – Buck Woody (b|t) made a interesting statement – that in a room of 23 people,...
2017-05-03 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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Blogs
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
SQL Server 2025 CU1 Fixes the Docker Desktop AVX Issue on macOS
Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers