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Ha Dang's victory in the inaugural UK Excel Championship turned a quiet London livestream into a high-pressure showcase of spreadsheet speed, logic and fluency — and it means the Leeds-based accountant will represent the United Kingdom at the Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas this...

I had been ignoring Power Query for years, treating Excel like a calculator with a few handy formulas—until a messy, cross‑vendor CSV pile forced me to learn the tool everyone always brags about. What started as a tedious weekend of copy‑pasting and find‑and‑replace turned into a few well‑chosen...

Managing complex web environments has never been more crucial—or more challenging—than in today’s digital-first businesses. With organizations increasingly leveraging Microsoft Power Pages to support a variety of internal and customer-facing portals, site administrators and makers often find...

SQL Server 2025 is poised to redefine the landscape of enterprise data analytics, reporting, and integration, marking a transformational release that aligns closely with the evolving needs of modern organizations. By focusing on best-in-class security, elevated performance, and empowered...

Python, R, and SQL have reached a crescendo in the modern data science landscape, not through head-to-head competition, but as critical, complementary pillars that together form the backbone of contemporary analytics workflows. Despite the temptation to pit these languages against each other in...

We are excited to announce a preview version of a brand new WinDbg. We’ve updated WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily extensible debugger data model front and center. I’ll start this by saying that WinDbg Preview is using...

Link Removed SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the first time an open source, third-party library, such as SQLite, has shipped as part...

The Social Care sample application provides a general interface and data model for automated conversion of social posts to Microsoft Dynamics CRM record types by using the social care generic framework feature. Link Removed

In the previous Quickstarts, we have introduced the app and looked at handling data requests and formatting. In this next video, we will look at binding that data to the interface. Binding and Windows 8 TemplatesData binding plays a central role in the Windows Store project templates available...

Chris Sells takes us on a small tour (two offices and a few hallways) in one of the Data Framework and Modeling Group's buildings (interesting - the same building the C9 team launched C9 from 6+ years ago: Building 18). The goal here is to get a sense of what's new in Entity Framework 4 and...