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

A robust Python script that converts Excel (.xlsx, .xls) and CSV files to T-SQL INSERT statements, ready for execution in SQL Server or Azure SQL Database.

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

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

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 ...

Working from home is great. Working from home and earning around $50 an hour is the dream, especially when you’re staring at ...

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

MCP Server enables AI agents to handle a full range of data-driven queries of Data Commons data sources, from initial discovery to generative reports, Google said. Looking to make public data access ...

Personal Data Servers are the persistent data stores of the Bluesky network. It houses a user's data, stores credentials, and if a user is kicked off the Bluesky network the Personal Data Server admin ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...