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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Querying Temporal Tables

Temporal tables a.k.a Table Versioning was introduced in SQL Server 2016 and is an easy, convenient way to track changes to data. A good introduction to temporal tables can be found here. One of the key advantages of versioning tables is easy of querying – or getting a ‘single pane of glass’ look of how […]

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