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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Geneology with SQL Graph – I

I have been working a lot of SQL Graph related queries and applications of the graph data concept to the extent possible within SQL Server’s graph capabilities. Genealogy, or...

2019-10-17 (first published: )

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Graph – Shortest Path

‘Shortest path’ is by far the most feature of SQL Graph for now. What does this even mean? ‘Shortest path’ is the term accorded to the shortest distance between...

2019-10-08 (first published: )

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Simple Graph Queries

In this post we saw how to create some graph tables with data. In this I will explore simple queries off of this data and how they compare with...

2019-10-01 (first published: )

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Blogs

Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS

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SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...

The PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap

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It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...

Microsoft Post-Quantum Crypto APIs Are Now Generally Available

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I mentioned this in my talk on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community...

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Find all the tables in a database containing particular column value

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The Ending Substring

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Done is Better than Good

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The Ending Substring

In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?

SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']'

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