PASS Summit 2017 – the best ever
I have been a PASS summit attendee for 14 years now. This year is my 15th. Every year is different...
2017-11-05
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Mala's Data Blog
Understanding ANOVA
ANOVA – or analysis of variance, is a term given to a set of statistical models that are used to analyze...
2017-10-16 (first published: 2017-10-09)
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Box-and-whisker plot and data patterns with R and T-SQL
R is particularly good with drawing graphs with data. Some graphs are familiar to most DBAs as it has been...
2017-10-03 (first published: 2017-09-25)
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Confidence Intervals for a proportion – using R
What is the difference between reading numbers as they are presented, and interpreting them in a mature, deeper way? One...
2017-09-28 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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What is networking, really?
I am still trying to get up to speed on blogging after a gap. Today I managed to push myself...
2017-09-15 (first published: 2017-09-10)
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14 years of Summit…
I have been trying to get my blogging going again after a gap of two months. It has been incredibly...
2017-09-04
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Getting back to blogging
The past two months have been very hectic for me. I had an unexpected job offer towards end of July,...
2017-08-28
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Understanding Relative Risk – with T-SQL
In this post we will explore a common statistical term – Relative Risk, otherwise called Risk Factor. Relative Risk is a...
2017-06-21 (first published: 2017-06-19)
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Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel Method with T-SQL and R – Part I
This test is an extension of the Chi Square test I blogged of earlier. This is applied when we have...
2017-06-12
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Dataset for Cochran-Mantel-Hanzel Test
Below is the script to create the table and dataset I used. This is just test data and not copied...
2017-06-12
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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