Mala Mahadevan

My name is Malathi, a.k.a Mala - I am a DBA turned BI/Data Science person, working with SQL Server since 6.5. I am also founder of the Louisville SQL Server user group, organizer of 8 SQL Saturdays, Regional mentor for northeast, and 14-year PASS conference attendee. In my spare time I love to garden, travel, read, paint, and do yoga.

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Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

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Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

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I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

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I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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Blocking question

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Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...

can I monitor auto stats updates through extended events?

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We have pretty big tables very sensitive to stats with many updates. Our systems...

SSIS upgrade

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I have about 40 packages that are dtsx files that were created with SQL...

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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