Some of you may remember at the end of last year I said I would be keeping my eye on a company called SQL Farms. Today I have my first update on their progress. They've got an editor that has tons of ...

When you want to combine values in Microsoft Excel, instead of complex expressions or VBA, opt for Power Query – it’s fast and easy. My TechRepublic article How to combine values from a column into a ...

So lets say I have 5 databases, all with the same schema, but different data. I want to be able to build reports based on the data in all of those databases. How could I construct a view which would ...

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 ...

Chris Webb shared a two part article on optimizing the performance of Power Query merges. Known as joining in SQL, merging in Power Query can result in performance issues when refreshing. Using a CSV ...

This video shows how to create a combined PivotTable from multiple Excel worksheets and files. It demonstrates three scenarios and the methods to consolidate data for analysis: - Scenario 1 (0:51) — ...

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 ...