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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Protected: Vajrasara – an interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 1

by Mala Mahadevan

Mala's Data Blog

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2019-09-02

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Protected: Vajrasara – An interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 2

by Mala Mahadevan

Mala's Data Blog

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

2019-09-02

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Graph Databases – Introduction

by Mala Mahadevan

Mala's Data Blog

I have been looking into this feature and also into understanding graph data in general. I believe introduction of graph database feature in SQL Server has many advantages –...

2019-08-22 (first published: 2019-08-09)

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PASS Summit 2019 – spending the time

by Mala Mahadevan

Mala's Data Blog

The session line up for PASS Summit 2019 was announced today...there are so many good sessions to go to..managing time and what we do with our limited time there...

2019-08-08

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Querying Temporal Tables

by Mala Mahadevan

SQLServerCentral

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

by Mala Mahadevan

Mala's Data Blog

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: 2019-05-17)

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