The most important new feature for accelerated queries is the asynchronous IO subsystem (AIO), which has “proven up to threefold performance improvements when reading from memory,” according to the ...

Have you ever spent hours fine-tuning a Power Query workflow, only to have it break because a column name changed? It’s a frustratingly common scenario for anyone working with dynamic or external data ...

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Google’s Robby Stein shares new details about the query fan-out technique in AI Mode, explaining how Google generates and executes its own queries. Google’s query fan-out technique issues multiple ...

Have you ever stared at a massive dataset, only to realize it’s riddled with empty columns that serve no purpose? It’s a frustrating scenario—one that wastes time, clutters your workflow, and makes ...

Google's AI overviews appear in 30% of searches and nearly three-quarters of problem-solving queries, according to a new study. AI Overviews mostly appear in mid-volume searches, not high-traffic ...

The advent of large language models (LLMs) marks the most significant shift in the search experience since the rise of mobile technology. Google’s SERPs are evolving beyond the traditional 10 blue ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...