If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

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Replace repetitive copy-paste work by automatically combining, joining, and importing data directly inside Excel.

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

** This is a follow up to a previous thread**<BR><BR>I have a situation where every 5 minutes a xml file is downloaded from a remote server, parsed and then a table is created with the data. For ...