A number of people swear by Google Sheets, while another group is firmly loyal to Excel. I’m somewhere in between, as I use ...

Postcodes are just text values. How does Power BI know where each postcode is on a map? It does so by geocoding: sending each ...

If Excel vanished tomorrow, global finance would halt. It is the essential infrastructure powering the modern world.

The Execute Direct Query event has a duration of 2.1 seconds – meaning that again there is a gap to be explained, a gap where no activity seems to be taking place in the visual (clearly visible in the ...

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task has significant application prospects in automating relational database query interfaces. It can reduce user learning costs and improve data query efficiency. However, ...

PowerShell script to generate a SQL CREATE TABLE statement from Excel files, with automatic column type detection and header handling.

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

Microsoft Excel for Windows is getting a streamlined upgrade for anyone working with external data. If you regularly use Power Query, there’s a brand-new “Get Data” experience rolling out that aims to ...