Excel & SQL Server Integration: Effortless Data Analysis, Visualization and Reporting
Tired of wrestling with complex SQL queries just to analyze your data? Welcome to this…
Excel & SQL Server Integration: Effortless Data Analysis, Visualization and Reporting
Tired of wrestling with complex SQL queries just to analyze your data? Welcome to this comprehensive tutorial where we’ll unlock the power of Microsoft Excel to seamlessly connect with your SQL Server database! Forget intricate coding – Excel empowers even non-technical users to effortlessly extract, analyze, and visualize crucial business information directly from your SQL…
How to Create SQL Server Database from CSV Files in Simple Steps (With Download Link to CSV Files)
Today, we demonstrated building an SQL Server database from CSV files. We had multiple CSVs, each representing a table (‘brand’, ‘category’, ‘channel’, ‘customer’, ‘method’, ‘product’, ‘staff’, ‘store’), except ‘sales’, which was split into three files. This is common when migrating from simpler databases struggling with large datasets or multi-user access. We exported tables to CSV…
The Ultimate Real-Time Crypto Dashboard: Power BI, Power Automate and SQL Magic
Alright, buckle up for a whirlwind tour of creating a real-time Bitcoin price dashboard! We’re diving into the exciting world of Power BI and Power Automate to snatch live data from Binance and display it dynamically. First things first, we’ll head over to SQL Server Management Studio and craft a table named “Binance” with columns…
Quiz 20250427: MS Excel Basics
Challenge yourself with this quick quiz featuring ten fundamental questions designed to test your basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel functionalities, ranging from calculating sums and finding maximum values to understanding file formats, cell referencing, counting numeric entries, manipulating columns, performing lookups, visualizing data trends, initiating formulas, and managing worksheet views. The answers are conveniently linked…
Host Power BI Reports on Your Own Power BI Report Server using LAN and Internet
Welcome to this Power BI tutorial where we’ll guide you through the process of hosting your Power BI reports on your own server. To achieve this, we’ll utilize Power BI Report Server, which can be conveniently downloaded from the Microsoft website. Simply navigate to the website, click on “advanced download options,” and then select the…
SQL Window Functions: GROUP BY on Steroids – Without Collapsing Rows
Dive into the power of SQL window functions, a transformative tool for data analysis that enables calculations across related table rows without collapsing them like traditional GROUP BY clauses. These functions, categorized into aggregate (like AVG, MAX, MIN, SUM, COUNT), value (ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, PERCENT_RANK, NTILE), and ranking (LAG, LEAD, FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE) types, add calculated…
Configuring SQL Server for Local Area Network: Access SQL Server using Local IP Address
To configure an SQL server for access over a local area network, begin by opening the SQL Server Configuration Manager and enabling the TCP/IP protocol under SQL Server Network Configuration. After applying this change, navigate to the IP Addresses tab, locate IPAll, and set the desired TCP Port (default is 1433). Remember that these changes…
Power BI Q&A: Best Practices for Effective Data Exploration
Welcome to our tutorial on the Power BI Q&A visual, where we’ll guide you through effectively utilizing this feature and designing dashboards with it. We’ll begin by importing data into Power BI’s data pane, selecting the desired table, and loading it, populating the data pane with its fields for visual design. Before using Q&A, we’ll…
Google Colab: Auto Generate Python Code using Google AI inside Colab
This Google Collab tutorial introduces the use of generative AI to streamline Python coding, error identification, and integration with Google services. Learn how to leverage AI to write Python code, automatically identify and fix errors with suggested replacements, connect to Google Drive, import data from Google Sheets into Collab data frames, perform data analysis, generate…
Power BI: Snowflake vs. Star schema explained in detail, with simple example and a dashboard
This Power BI tutorial guides you through data modeling, focusing on the star and snowflake schemas. You’ll learn how to import an Excel dataset containing sales and related tables into Power BI, and then build both types of data models in the Model view. The key difference is explained: star schemas connect all dimension tables…