When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

Just a few weeks after introducing AI agents into Office 365 apps, Microsoft is already testing news ways to bolster the integration of Copilot in Windows 11. Windows insiders will have access to new ...

Microsoft has upgraded its AI-powered Copilot digital assistant to generate Office documents and to connect to Outlook and Gmail email accounts, as well as third-party services like Google Calendar ...

If you use Google Sheets, then you'll know that it is a versatile tool that can pick up and run with any existing spreadsheets from applications like Microsoft Excel. You can even convert existing ...

In today’s data-driven world, extracting information from PDF files and transferring it to Excel spreadsheets is a common necessity for many professionals. Although dealing with these two formats can ...

There's a lot to love about Apple products, but since much of the working world runs on Windows, it can be frustrating trying to transfer files from one platform to the next. In fact, because you'll ...

Why? well, because it falls over helplessly when anyone attempts to use it as a database. It's really not queryable. Because it's impossible to audit. Same formula in all 3700 rows of a column?

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

SSIS is a popular and mature tool for performing data movement and cleanup operations. In the Microsoft ecosystem, SSIS is one of the most common extract, load, and transform (ETL) tools in use today.