Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

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 ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

In this post, we will show you how to split Data into Rows using Power Query. While exporting data from other systems or sources, you may encounter situations when the data is stored in a format where ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

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 ...