The last time the Chicago Cubs won three straight elimination games in the postseason was in the 2016 World Series. You might remember it. They head into Game 3 of the National League Division Series ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between columns and rows is that a column arranges data vertically from top ...

We can first group by person and building, and then divide every 2 adjacent rows within the group into a small group and transpose each small group. But after SQL grouping, it must aggregate ...

This is my final column for The Times. In the memo I wrote three years ago when applying for this job after 11 years at The Times Book Review, I vowed “to write to Times readers rather than to Twitter ...

People interpret data differently; some insert data horizontally and others prefer to do it vertically. For flexibility, Microsoft Excel comes with the Transpose feature, which lets you switch columns ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

The authors of a new oral history of the New York Post spill the tea on their own madcap days as editors of the paper's must-read daily dish. By Susan Mulcahy, Frank DiGiacomo The gossip column is ...

If you’ve ever worked with an enormous Excel spreadsheet, you’ll know just how daunting all those rows and columns can be. Once you’re over 10 or 15 different values and labels, it can get pretty ...