This article is extremely useful and a joy to read, as always. Happy New Year, Phil.

Hi Rod, on our local instance of SSRS 2016, .xlsx is the only Excel export option available.

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When you open a file in an application that was not designed for...

Answer since 2010 is Excel PowerPivot, which let's you have millions of rows in Excel, makes it like a reporting database. Then Power Query in 2013, which gives you...

Hi Jonathan, I think that your question provides an...

The Office suite is a desktop application. It has some workgroup interoperability, but it was never designed for a multi-threaded environment. In the US, finance professionals tend to be highly...

My lunch factor is 1, but can go up to 2 or more depending on the risk of the change. I advise that approvals and the promotion process itself should...

But Atlanta doesn't have the worst traffic in the US. The absolute worst commute is Miami, Florida - it's a maze of highways elevated above swamp land and often...

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Equity is right. If you care...

George, I am envious of your being able to work remotely for so long. What I'd like to know is how you've been able to do that? Or put...

I mentioned that I ended up in rural West Texas, but I probably should have mentioned that there is a tremendous upside. The cost of living here is dirt cheap....

I refuse to be afraid of my own planet.

Bears!