Basic Statistics with SQL – Introduction
I was a student of statistics in school and college. I didn’t get to use much of anything I learned...
2016-07-10
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Mala's Data Blog
TSQL Tuesday #75 – PowerBI
This month’s TSQL Tuesday post is from one of my favorite people in the community – Jorge Segarra a.k.a. SQL Chicken. It...
2016-02-17
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Advent of Code – Day 2 – Using Cross apply
For this post i worked on second puzzle in the Adventofcode series. This wasn’t as challenging as the first one, but...
2016-02-02
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Advent of Code – Day 1 – Parsing a variable
I have been following the series of posts written by my friend and SQL MCM Wayne Sheffield on some TSQL...
2016-01-19
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Comparing data in two identical tables
Continuing with the recipes in SQL Server 2012 T-SQL recipes book – I was drawn to this puzzle that asked for...
2015-12-14
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers