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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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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2019-07-29

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Pathways to Progress

One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are...

2019-06-05 (first published: )

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SQL Server Audit Failures

If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?

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