Abstract: Efficient SQL Query Optimization (QO) is a fundamental aspect of database management systems, aimed at enhancing query performance and reducing resource consumption typically involves ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

Microsoft is giving Power Query in Excel for Windows its first major refresh in years. The company has introduced a new ‘Get Data’ dialog that streamlines how users discover and connect to external ...

Every country produces data, but not every country produces it in an organized manner. What matters is not just the volume of data, but how it’s standardized and structured. The messiest or most data ...

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...

There is a free tier for GitHub Copilot. As of this writing, GitHub Copilot’s free tier gives you 50 chat requests and 2,000 code completions per month. That’s a generous, entry-level offering, and a ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or milestones plotted along it. To create a ...

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