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 ...

In today’s fast-paced business environment, efficient and accurate financial reporting is crucial for making informed decisions. Manually consolidating and transforming financial data from multiple ...

Do you want to analyze data that resides in Google BigQuery as part of an R workflow? Thanks to the bigrquery R package, it’s a pretty seamless experience — once you know a couple of small tweaks ...

When working with address data, you may encounter situations where you need to merge multiple columns, such as address, town, and postcode, into a single column. Power Query makes this task a breeze.

In June 2026, HTTP gained its first new general-purpose method in over a decade – QUERY. Organizations increasingly need to submit large or complex read/query criteria. GET pushes that information ...

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column. Entity Framework Core (EF Core for short) is a popular ORM ...

Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...

This SEO approach to BigQuery answers the question: What do I do once I connect BigQuery to Google Search Console? Let's find out! BigQuery has a number of advantages not found with other tools when ...

Build code-free pipelines with Live Query + BigQuery. Use Gemini securely within your data platform to process and analyze unstructured data.

Natural language query (NLQ) is a capability that enables users to ask questions within their analytics platforms using ordinary human language instead of query language. This self-service business ...

How might queries that trigger structured information cards change over time? When does a search engine decide that it should show a knowledge panel in response to a query? What words in a query will ...

At the end of every month, you open each file, copy and paste, manually fix inconsistent naming, and recreate pivot tables.