Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

We promise we won't give you a pop (corn) quiz at the end When I was a little girl, I used to play counting games while I ate corn on the cob. First, I would count the number of bites it took me to ...

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 ...

Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...

Recently I was working with a customer using DirectQuery mode and where all traffic to the data source had to go through an on-premises data gateway for security reasons. They noticed that report ...

@@ROWCOUNT returns the number of rows affected by the last statement. Returns the number of rows affected by the last statement. If the number of rows is more than 2 ...

When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...

The Windows 8 Start Screen displays a set number of tiles, arranged in rows. If you want to increase or decrease the number of rows of app tiles that are displayed on your Start screen, this article ...