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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Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
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Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
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A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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