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Eleven equations to know

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:08:01 +0000

Elegant Coding recommends 11 equations any computer science geek should know. How many of them do you know?

Learn Access to improve Excel

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:32:53 +0000

Access has come in handy so many times for me when Excel just wouldn’t cut it. Jorge at ExcelCharts.com suggests that knowing how to use Access can may you a better Excel user. I agree. Check out his post for the rest of the details.

Tips for using Excel auto filters

Sat, 23 May 2009 23:57:37 +0000

PTS has some good tricks for using Excel’s auto filters including using auto filters with pivot tables

Reorder stacked columns in Excel charts

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:18:38 +0000

When you make a stacked column chart in Excel, the columns are normally stacked in whatever order you put the series in. Check out this how-to guide for reorganizing the columns so the largest values are on the bottom of each column.

Tips from Amazon to keep your db simple and fast

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:05:13 +0000

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, provides these tips to keep your database simple and running fast on his blog at All Things Distributed.

Segmentation back to basics

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:07:36 +0000

1 to 1 Media had a good article today about the basics of segmentation – I.D.I.C. A refresher never hurts.

Identify
Differentiate
Interact
Customize

Doubling up your Excel charts

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:02:40 +0000

Here’s a hack for excel that explains how to better chart related series on two axes without the confusion associated with the normal excel way of doing it.

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/weblog/?p=296

Using those good old function keys

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:51:16 +0000

Back in the days of DOS, everyone knew what the function keys did, but now most people don’t use them at all. Check out this article to find out what all the function keys do. It will likely save you some time.

http://www.compukiss.com/sandyclassroom/tutorials/article894.htm

Adding one value to every record in a table in MS Access

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:00:53 +0000

Someone just asked me how to do this so I am going to post my solution in case it will help others…

Situation: You have a table of email addresses (and that’s it) of clients from the Boston DMA. You want to add a new field called DMA and assign all records the value of “Boston”

Solution: Make a query that includes your email address table. Include email address as one filed and add a new one. The new one will be called DMA and have a value of “Boston”. The SQL would look something like this…

SELECT [EmailList].emailaddress, “Boston” AS DMA
FROM [EmailList];

another option that would make a new table (called dmatable) for the info would be…

SELECT [EmailList].emailaddress, “Boston” AS DMA INTO dmatable
FROM [EmailList];