I am hosting 2019’s last T-SQL Tuesday of the year. I chose to ask people to write on gifts they had received – by way of community, relationships, or even tech features. A rather loose definition , as the one and only Aaron Bertrand calls it đŸ™‚ I have a lot to be thankful for… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #121 Gifts received
It is December again. 2019 has gone by in a flash. I have the honor of hosting the last TSQL Tuesday blog party of the year. This monthly blog party started by SQL Guru Adam Machanic since 2009 has completed 121 months this year. I am the lucky host of event #121. If you are… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #121: Gifts received for this year
I attended my 16th PASS Summit this November 6th, 2019 at Seattle. It was a wonderful week of learning and networking. Below are my takeaways for key days. The keynotes by Rohan Kumar from Microsoft on wednesday, and Tarah Wheeler, Cyber Security Expert on Thursday were not ‘among the best’, they were ‘THE BEST’ i’ve… Continue reading PASS Summit 2019 Takeaways
I’ve been at the bloggers table for two years now. I felt honored to be selected this year too. The day has started a bit differently – bloggers were given an overview of what to expect from the board and staff of PASS. It was a very different and great move, in my opinion. It… Continue reading PASS Summit 2019: Day 1 Keynote – my takeaways
In the previous post I explored a query on how to construct a basic family tree with sql graph – including table set up and queries. In this post am going to explain how to query this to get relationships and some clues on DNA/ethnic mix.1 Relationships: We can use the ‘shortest path’ clause to… Continue reading Geneology with SQL Graph – Part II
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 querying family trees is an important graph data application. A lot of us may not have work related applications that are genealogy related, necessarily. But conceptually,… Continue reading Geneology with SQL Graph – I
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my friend across the pond – Alex Yates. Alex has a fantastic topic for us to blog about – he asks us to talk about why we changed our mind, on anything related to our careers. What was our original opinion, why we believed that, and what we… Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday: Changing my mind
‘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 any two points, referred to as nodes in graph databases. The algorithm that helps you find the shortest distance between node A and node B is… Continue reading Graph – Shortest Path
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 their relational counterparts. The main goal behind a graph design is to help you answer queries – so what are the questions you’d ask of a… Continue reading Simple Graph Queries
In the previous post on this we saw what is a basic graph data structure, and the layout of an example – a movie database with it. In this I am going to explain how to convert that design into graph tables. The SQL Server graph architecture is explained really well here. I already have… Continue reading Creating Graph tables
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