As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ever imagined. These are the tips and tricks you need to know.

Stop Manually Copy Pasting in Excel — Power Query features demonstrated This video demonstrates five practical Power Query ...

Google Sheets can now preserve formatting and structural information while importing Excel files. Sheets now imports Excel worksheets as “Sheets tables.” It also keeps pivot tables intact, rather than ...

Power BI has become an indispensable tool for businesses looking to transform raw data into actionable insights. But here’s the thing: those insights are only as good as the data they’re built on. If ...

Data scientists and data engineers often find themselves caught between two worlds: SQL and Python. Some find SQL more intuitive, especially when combined with a powerful engine like BigQuery to ...

As of today, July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 has reached end of support. For the past decade, SQL Server 2016 has helped organizations run mission-critical applications and support the data needs of ...

Whether you’re a seasoned database administrator or a beginner eager to understand data management, knowing how to import SQL file is crucial. This task not only allows you to migrate data but also ...

Tony Phillips is an experienced Microsoft Office user with a dual-honors degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. Prior to starting with How-to Geek in January 2024, he worked as a document ...

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management ...

Tony Phillips is an experienced Microsoft Office user with a dual-honors degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. Prior to starting with How-to Geek in January 2024, he worked as a document ...