The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In ...

ExcelTable is a pipelined table interface to read Excel files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xls, .xml), ODF spreadsheet files (.ods), and flat files (delimited or positional) as if they were external tables.

What was considered best practice yesterday does not hold true today and this is especially relevant when it comes to XML sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself. The problem is, it’s ...

This is mostly a permission issue where the user doesn’t have enough permission to create files using Windows Assistant. Create a Local administrator account Reset user permissions Run Windows Update ...

Microsoft SQL Server uses a Master Data File (MDF) to store its primary data files. Considered the backbone of SQL Server, it acts as an SQL database accommodated into a file. This MDF file comprises ...

Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Pakistan. Of course. Often featured as a convenient punching bag in Hindi films—also doubling up as a fount for Islamophobia—it has found several companions in recent years, as Bollywood filmmakers ...

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a human-readable and machine-friendly format used to store and transport data. Learning to work with XML files can be valuable for web developers and data ...