Whether you’re just getting in to programming or you’ve avoided learning SQL, it’s something every developer faces eventually. You may not be responsible for building and maintaining a database, but ...

LibreOffice contains a very powerful database tool that is actually quite user friendly. Here’s how to create a database query using the Design View tool. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

This Office Letter tip comes courtesy of Jim Boyce: I recently needed to set up a database for a list server application. The list server created a Microsoft Access database with its own table and ...

A missing quote made MySQL scan 7.2 million rows. Here's how EXPLAIN exposed the problem and what it taught us about safe ...

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 ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...