Getting Started with Power Query M Language in Excel

This article introduces M language concepts and examples of using M to manipulate data in Excel.

Excel LET Formula for creating small values tables from a table or range

The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.

Excel Formula to create SQL Script for a Values Table

Here is an Excel formula that generates a SQL script from an Excel table

Chopping Off Data

An ETL issue with Excel causes issues, because the users didn't realize a limitation.

Analyze SQL Server Results in Excel with Conditional Formatting

Learn how to format your SQL Server results in Excel using conditional formatting to quickly identify patterns and issues.

Read Excel File in SQL Server with OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE

In this tip we look at how to read an Excel file from within SQL Server using OpenRowSet and OpenDataSource along with the possible errors you may encounter and how to fix these issues.

The Best of Both Worlds: Using Excel and Power BI Together

Excel and Power BI work well together. This allows you to use the two tools together to provide for many types of business workflow and BI practices. You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyse a Power BI dataset in Excel or import either an Excel workbook or Excel data to Power BI. You can gain the workgroup power and business-orientation of Power BI without losing the ease and versatility of Excel. Saurabh shows how.

Export data from SQL Server to Excel

What native SQL Server options are available to export to Excel? Jeremy Kadlec explains.

Excel File Data Validation for SQL Server Imports

Jeffrey Yao suggests a solution to validate Excel data via PowerShell and Regular Expressions.

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