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Conditional formatting breaks in Excel PivotTables—until you turn on this hidden setting

PivotTable-aware conditional formatting ties rules to fields, so visuals persist even when you refresh, filter, or change ...
MUO on MSN

Two new Excel functions replaced every pivot table I used to build

Excel formulas are getting scary good.
InfoWorld

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

While reaffirming its Microsoft partnership, the company is building a Bedrock-native orchestration layer that positions it firmly in multi-cloud territory. Stateless AI, in which a model offers ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Many enterprises use GitHub Action Secrets to store and protect sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and tokens used in CI/CD workflows. These private repositories are widely assumed ...
VentureBeat

Headless vs. native semantic layer: The architectural key to unlocking 90%+ text-to-SQL accuracy

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Build: SQL Server 2025 Is (Almost) Here

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...
Hacker

Drag, Drop, and Dominate: The Best Pivot Table Libraries for Web Apps

MESCIUS inc. (formerly GrapeCity) provides JavaScript and .NET grids, UI, reporting, spreadsheets, document APIs, etc. MESCIUS inc. (formerly GrapeCity) provides ...