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If your are wondering how to handle large datasets and complex calculations in your spreadsheets. This is where MS Excel PowerPivot comes into play. PowerPivot is an advanced feature in Excel that ...

Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

New release adds global database connections, logical datasources, relational validation and flexible inspections to ...

Data scientists and data engineers are both critical roles for data-driven organizations. When they work well together, it can be magical. But too often, their relationships are fraught with tension ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

A database model that describes the attributes of entities and the relationships among them. An entity is a file (table). Today, ER models are often created graphically, and software converts the ...