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Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

This Custom Data Connector wraps many of the "Get" endpoints in the Power BI API (with the exception of the /executeQueries endpoint), so that OAuth can be used to authenticate to the service. This ...

When retrieving data in PowerBI, e.g. via an API, it is quite common that the content is encoded in base64 format. The reasons (amongst others) is because it ensures safe and reliable transmission of ...

This Custom Data Connector wraps a few of the "Get" endpoints in the Power Automate API, so that OAuth can be used to authenticate to the service. This connector serves as a way to have a library of ...

IBM Informix is a database server that focuses on relational database management. Review the basics of IBM Informix and how it stacks up against competitors. Relational database management systems ...

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Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources. In an ...

The task of converting JSON to an Excel CSV file won’t take a long time. We suspect it can take less than a minute if you move fast enough and have the relevant knowledge. In order to move on, you ...

Since the release of the new Respond to PowerApps functionality this month, we’ve seen people ask about a few different scenarios. In this post we’ll walk through two examples: Upload, and then ...