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
801 reads
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
954 reads
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)
2,548 reads
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)
1,749 reads
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
369 reads
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
1,661 reads
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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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
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Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers