In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest. In ...

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

Microsoft Excel's VLOOKUP function fetches data from different cells. It searches an array for a specific value and returns the value of a cell adjacent to it. Normally, VLOOKUP retrieves this data ...

Microsoft's SQL Server software, used in thousands of businesses ranging from storefront operations to multinational companies, has capabilities to bulk-insert Comma Separated Value files into a ...

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...

In a previous article, I looked at Grafana, a free, open-source data visualization tool. In the past, I tried (and failed) to use it to create a simple graph using CSV files, which is a bit of an ...

Google quietly updated their Google Search Central documentation to note that they are now indexing .csv files. This opens up a new way to get crawled or if a publisher doesn’t want their .csv files ...

Storing data in a structured way is important when that data will be read by a computer. One of the easiest ways to put data into an easy-to-read format is with a comma-separated value (CSV) file. A ...

Each of these CSV files has four columns: FirstName,LastName,Title,HireDate. At the end of each month, management wants a report of who was hired that month. To find this information, you must read ...

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...