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Structured references use table columns instead of cell coordinates, making formulas easier to read, update, and trust.

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Open-source platform with 30+ MCP tools lets AI agents autonomously create pipelines, query databases, search vector ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Abstract: The increasing reliance on data-driven decision making has made database interaction a critical component in many domains. However, writing Structured Query Language (SQL) queries requires ...

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task is to convert natural language queries into Structured Query Language (SQL) to achieve a natural language interface for database queries. The current research on Text-to ...

If Excel is where you track projects, plan budgets, manage clients, or run your side hustle, you already know it’s a powerhouse. But turning rows and columns into real answers—spotting trends, ...

Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new platforms promise automation and out-of-the-box intelligence, many teams continue to rely on ...