Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel sheets, each holding pieces of data that need to be stitched together into one cohesive whole? It’s a common challenge for anyone working ...

PowerQuery is a powerful tool in Excel that allows you to import, clean, and analyze data from various sources. One of the key features of PowerQuery is its ability to refresh data automatically, ...

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 ...

Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

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 ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

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 ...

Every few months, someone discovers the Google Sheets QUERY function and has the same reaction: why did nobody tell me about this? Here is what it does and why it changes how you work with data.

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 ...