Abstract: Modern data management applications involve complex processing tasks over large volumes of data. Although this falls naturally within the scope of relational databases, many such tasks ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Taking another big step forward, Enhanced Component Properties (ECP) are now generally available (GA) and ready for your production workloads! ECPs are a great way to modularize and reuse your logic ...

I’m pleased to announce updates that will make Power Fx formula reuse and maintenance easier than ever: Named formulas depend on being declarative, something the system can defer and recalc based on ...

Abstract: User-defined functions (UDFs) are widely used to enhance the ca-pabilities of DBMSs. However, using UDFs comes with a significant performance penalty because DBMSs treat UDFs as black boxes, ...

ABSTRACT: End-user computing empowers non-developers to manage data and applications, enhancing collaboration and efficiency. Spreadsheets, a prime example of end-user programming environments widely ...