Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...

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Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

Have you ever felt like your Excel skills hit a ceiling, no matter how many pivot tables you create? You’re not alone. While standard pivot tables are a reliable tool for summarizing data, they often ...

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The SQL PIVOT function has very limited functionality. It is only useful for numeric data, with very explicit, "hard coding" requirements. We frequently require more flexibility in pivoting data. The ...

I will show how to pivot tables using the PIVOT clause. How to add a summary column and the summary row to the result: We need to have data to analyse. All examples in this post are based on the ...