Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

What if I told you that a simple change could make your Power Query refresh from SharePoint up to 700% faster? If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a progress bar that refuses to budge, you’re not ...

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, ...

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The move to the data lakehouse was full of promises—speed, agility, and cost-effective query performance, to name a few. Yet, many enterprises find it difficult to realize all these benefits at once; ...

A common task that all database and system administrators face is patching systems. Patching your systems is very important -- first and foremost, security fixes are included in patches. Patches also ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...

Microsoft Power Query requires less specialized knowledge when trying to find duplicate records in a Microsoft Excel sheet. There are several ways to find duplicates in a Microsoft Excel sheet. You ...

How to combine values from a column into a single cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query Your email has been sent The article How to concatenate values in a single Excel column to a single row shows ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...