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Reader Claire uses Windows Mail (a.k.a. Windows Live Mail) to manage e-mail from her Gmail account. (Smart! Sounds just like what I recommended last week.) However, when she clicks on Sent Mail, the ...
When you enter data into a spreadsheet, you may need to make room for more. You might want to insert one or more columns to include additional data. We’ll show you how to add columns in Google Sheets, ...
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 ...
Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...
If you are like me, you appreciate meetings where it feels like the group “got something done” by the time it adjourned. On the other hand, meetings where it feels like the group didn’t really do much ...
A JTable is a control you add to a Java application to display lists of data. NetBeans is a visual designer that helps programmers design the desktop forms that display on the user's desktop. You use ...
Columns organize data in Excel, and are often used as categories with headers to sort cells. You can simply right-click on an existing column to add another column immediately before it. To add ...
Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...
How to Add a Calculated Column in Microsoft Power BI Your email has been sent Not every piece of information you need will be in a table. For instance, if you want to know the profit of a product you ...
A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...