ExcelTable is a pipelined table interface to read Excel files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xls, .xml), ODF spreadsheet files (.ods), and flat files (delimited or positional) as if they were external tables.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is ...

File Server Resource Manager is a valuable tool that helps admins control and organize the storage of files on a server. In this guide, we will walk through the steps to install File Server Resource ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Make sure you have setup XAMPP stack in your system. The following guide explains how to setup XAMPP stack in Linux. Alternatively, you can use the LAMP or LEMP stacks which provides both PHP and ...

Evil SQL Client (ESC) is an interactive .NET SQL console client with enhanced SQL Server discovery, access, and data exfiltration features. While ESC can be a handy SQL Client for daily tasks, it was ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server, we have made it easier for app makers to enable their users to take pictures and upload files in their apps. App makers can now use the Microsoft SQL Server connector ...

Excel created pivot tables to improve upon its convoluted, weak reporting features (which are still available). The pivot table is actually a collection of tools that Excel uses to help you create ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...