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The hidden costs of whole-column references in Excel: Learn 3 alternatives to optimize your workbook's performance

Whole-column references in Excel are silent performance killers, often forcing the program to manage a range of over a ...
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The real reasons Excel has 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns

Excel's grid feels like an endless canvas until you hit the boundaries of row 1,048,576 or column XFD. These limits aren't ...
dbta

Column Databases Offer Benefits

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...
dbta

For Optimal Database Design, Changes Must be Coordinated

Changes to database structures are best performed in a coordinated fashion as the application processes that support the new functionality are rolled out into production. In a relational database, ...
TechRepublic

Oracle Tip: How to use default values with database columns

Oracle Tip: How to use default values with database columns Your email has been sent This article originally appeared in the Oracle e-newsletter. Click here to subscribe automatically. When you create ...
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Tables Are Dead: How to Overcome Relational Model Limitations

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...