As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

YTD measures stock performance from the start of the current year. YTD is used for clear, consistent start points in ongoing market activity. Using YTD alone can skew stock performance insights; ...

Rumor has it that Palantir Technologies is poised for a stock split. An analyst for RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, recently polled investors ...

Perhaps the best-known of all its collections, Patek Philippe’s Calatrava has been a solid pillar of the brand since 1932. The line’s clean, simple design was initially inspired by the Bauhaus ...

The EOMONTH function in Microsoft Excel returns the last day of a month in the past, the current month, or a month in the future. Whether you need to calculate end-of-month due dates, deadlines, ...

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its new SQL functions powered by generative AI. Snowflake is adding generative ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

Every time my mom baked cookies while I was growing up, I would, without fail, sneak a bite or two of the cookie dough. In fact, if I still lived at home, I’d definitely still be grabbing chunks of ...

Let’s say that you’re an eligible bachelor with a house full of things, but nobody to share those things with. It must get lonely, right? Nobody to watch that new movie on the telly with, or to eat ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about valuation is that it’s fluid—like a rolling average or a forecast of future value. In reality, valuation is a snapshot in time, much like a balance sheet. It ...