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At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...

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Have you ever stared at a beautifully organized table in Excel—rows and columns perfectly aligned—only to realize it’s a nightmare for analysis? Cross-tab layouts, while visually appealing, can feel ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

In the modern business landscape, data is a crucial asset, guiding strategic decisions and driving organizational success. However, raw data alone does not yield actionable insights; it requires ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

If the error message Cannot locate the Internet server or Proxy server in Excel, Word, PowerPoint keeps troubling you, then this post may help you. This usually ...

Both Excel and SQL databases have their pros and cons. But most people are more familiar with Excel than a database. For this reason, you might want to turn your Excel into a sort of SQL database ...