A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

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Have you ever spent hours fine-tuning a Power Query workflow, only to have it break because a column name changed? It’s a frustratingly common scenario for anyone working with dynamic or external data ...

Have you ever stared at a massive dataset, only to realize it’s riddled with empty columns that serve no purpose? It’s a frustrating scenario—one that wastes time, clutters your workflow, and makes ...

Abstract: The conventional dynamic task scheduling method of multi-level distributed query engine mainly uses DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) to generate task allocation scheduler, which is vulnerable to ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on ...

Data transposition aims to convert queried data into a specified format to display using front-end applications, such as reporting tools. There are row-to-column transposition, column-to-row ...