Category: Programming Tips and Tricks

  We’ve presented several tips and tricks on MS Excel in this website for you. Here’s another handy tip that you might find incredibly useful. There are occasions when your excel sheet spreads across several columns and you may notice that some columns are cut off from the right because of default print configuration and […]

  Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft, widely used for data analysis, management, and visualization. It allows users to organize, calculate, and manipulate data in tabular form, offering a variety of tools such as formulas, functions, charts, and pivot tables to perform complex calculations and generate insights. Excel is a versatile […]

  In a previous article we learnt how to use CTE (Common Table Expression) to render dates in a date range. In this example we’ll use somewhat advance technique to show a data in a heirarchical form. Using the regular T-SQL query this is almost impossible to achieve it without coding in a strored procedure […]

  Using a traditional programming language like C# or Python you can use “for” and “while” loop constructs to generate a sequence of numbers, dates, string values or anything else super-easily. But here we’ll learn how to generate date values in a specific range using Transact-SQL query. We’ll not use any SQL stored procedure. Let’s […]

  There are occasions when it is required to reveal running totals before rendering the grand total in a report. Usually calculating and providing running total is the job of a report designer software module. But if you’re using SQL Server database then Transact-SQL (a.k.a T-SQL) provides this facility right in the query. Let’s assume […]

  MS Excel provides a myriad of built-in data validation rules based on custom formula that enables users to control and validate the data entered into cells, ensuring its accuracy, integrity and consistency. With Data Validation, users can define rules and constraints on cell values, helping to prevent errors and inconsistencies in their spreadsheets. This […]

Working with Sql to query a database is both simple and complex but is an alluring experience for everybody. For the simple requirement it is quite simple and straight forward, but for complex scenarios you have to give a fair amount of thought before finalizing your desired query. Below we’ll walk you through some simple […]