A number of people swear by Google Sheets, while another group is firmly loyal to Excel. I’m somewhere in between, as I use ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Google Cloud’s lead engineer for databases discusses the challenges of integrating databases and LLMs, the tools needed to ...

The Visual Query Builder in DBeaver is a visual tool that helps you build and understand SQL queries in complex databases. It lets you work with your database in a visual way, making it easy to see ...

Hello Jeanne Huff, glad you asked (“What do you want?“). I look forward to every publication of The Astorian for local news and local history with lots of historic photos. “In One Ear” is a great page ...

The Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar two weeks from now will be the last to be held in California for the foreseeable future. Thoroughbred racing’s two-day, multi-race championship-deciding event moves to ...

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 ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

Here’s the conundrum for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays and all the other contenders with at least a passing interest in adding a top reliever: Do you overpay for an elite, controllable ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...