When it comes to converting data from one type to another in SSIS, you have a few choices. We are going to look at a few of them and discuss the differences. With all of these, we are assuming that ...

Power Query often automatically adds a ‘Change Type’ step after loading data to try and assign data types to columns based on the first 1,000 rows. If your data includes inconsistent types, such as ...

When collecting sets of numeric data that represent sales, customer survey results or other business-related outcomes, you can divide your values in four segments called quartiles. These data ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

When I started creating Web Services, I was using ADO.NET DataSets to retrieve data and then sending that data to my consumers using XML. Those Web Services are still there, but my consumers now want ...