To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

A trio of U.S. senators, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), sent a letter to several hyperscalers voicing concerns and demanding answers regarding ...

Abstract: The explosive growth of data poses significant challenges for GPU-based databases, which must balance limited memory capacity with the need for high-speed query execution. Compression has ...

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Note: Inquiry is very new. It's still just a pet project. It has not been "battle-tested". It has not been benchmarked. It has not been stress tested. The API is still unstable and breaking changes ...