Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

Your content may already be surfacing for searches you never planned for. Here's how to identify those opportunities and act on them.

Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

When working with address data, you may encounter situations where you need to merge multiple columns, such as address, town, and postcode, into a single column. Power Query makes this task a breeze.

Learn how to use query fan-out tools to improve AI search rankings on platforms like ChatGPT and AI Overviews, and track your optimization results. In AI search, query fan-out refers to the expansion ...

Power Query advanced options actually hide essential everyday tools. Stop avoiding menus like the Group By tool for multiple ...

Query fan-out optimization has a simple goal: making your content useful across multiple related queries at once, not just a single keyword. AI-powered search systems and LLMs increasingly answer ...

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 ...

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column. Entity Framework Core (EF Core for short) is a popular ORM ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...