Some of you may remember at the end of last year I said I would be keeping my eye on a company called SQL Farms. Today I have my first update on their progress. They've got an editor that has tons of ...

After finishing my first SQL courses, I continued my journey by diving deeper into SQL — and the next big topic I encountered was joining data. This is one of the most important (and often confusing) ...

When you want to combine values in Microsoft Excel, instead of complex expressions or VBA, opt for Power Query – it’s fast and easy. My TechRepublic article How to combine values from a column into a ...

Google Cloud Summit came to London last week, and we took the opportunity to sit down with database execs Sailesh ...

If you spend Mondays copying data from email attachments into a "Master" sheet, you're not working in Excel—you're doing manual labor. Power Query fixes that. Master these three core data ...

LINQ with Entity Framework has become so common that, when I'm looking at a client's code I'm finding some pretty scary-looking LINQ queries running against Entity Framework. Since I'm a big fan of ...

Another SQL question that's confusing me today. I don't think that can be done in SQL alone; look into the DBMS's procedural language or the language used to render the data. Conceptually this could ...

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

If you are working with Excel spreadsheets or workbooks, juggling multiple tables of data, at some time you might need to combine them into one. Rather than spending hours manually copying and pasting ...

Have you ever faced the frustration of trying to combine multiple Excel files, only to realize their sheet names don’t match? It’s a common headache for anyone working with data from varied sources.

Hopefully someone has a little experience with this. <BR><BR>Here is the setup:<BR>I've got an old access database that stores purchasing information from a system we used for the past 10 years. There ...