A podcast by Hiran de Silva Imagine you’ve just found a useful article on the internet. Would you copy the entire web page into a Word document and email that document...
By Hiran de Silva People sometimes ask: “If the Digital Librarian is such a game-changer, why hasn’t anyone thought about it before?” The answer is: they have. For over...
By Hiran de Silva Most people use spreadsheets in the same simple way: to store data.You open a file, type in what you want to record, maybe add a formula, and keep it...
A Lecture by Hiran de Silva [Opening]Most people already know 99% of what I’m about to show you. Power Query, dynamic arrays, pivot tables, even a bit of VBA—that’s the...
By Hiran de Silva How old do you have to be to drive a car?Most people will instinctively answer with the legal driving age. But the truth is, you can drive at any...
By Hiran de Silva For as long as spreadsheets have existed, their most devoted users have dreamt of one thing: relational database capability inside the spreadsheet. The...
By Hiran de Silva On social media, it is often claimed that Excel and Access are rivals. A recent LinkedIn post even argued that Excel with Power Query can replace a...
By Hiran de Silva It was Wednesday morning, and I’d spent most of Tuesday on a LinkedIn thread — the one which said, essentially, that Power Query replaces Access as a...
By Hiran de Silva Podcast narrated Christopher T. Fennell recently made the provocative claim that “Power Query replaces Access.”Many professionals, including myself...
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When Miseducation Masquerades as Expertise— A Response to “Power Query Replaces Access”
By Hiran de Silva Christopher T. Fennell recently claimed that “Power Query replaces Access.”This isn’t just wrong — it’s a textbook case of how social media...