Author: Bala
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New function in Excel 2016 to display in a cell, the formula contained in another cell
You must have come across a number of situations when you were trying to explain a formula that you have written in Excel and the result of the formula. This kind of situation basically demands both the formula expression and the formula result to be displayed simultaneously. For example, from…
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A White Paper – Solving Relational Division problem in SQL – The Analyst Way
Hi readers..!! Here I go posting a white paper on one of the classical and intellectually challenging problems that an analyst might come across. The paper is titled – “Understanding and Solving Relational Division problems in SQL – The Analyst way”. Hope you enjoy reading this paper. Please leave your comments…
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A Use Case of CROSS JOINS in SQL
Use case of SQL CROSS JOIN: Although CROSS JOIN is available in SQL, you rarely find any instance where you can use it. Here is one use case for CROSS JOIN in SQL: Example with fictitious data: Assuming a tournament of Soccer to happen among four teams, what are the…
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Truncating time part from date & time data in Excel
Did you ever come across a situation where you had to compare two dates ignoring their time part to arrive at a status indicator ? Let’s see an example and the trick to address it: Example Scenario: Here you have some order ids and their respective order dates, target dates…
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Find and Replace carriage return in MS Excel
Scenario: Here is a scenario that I have come across recently in Excel. I have the data in column that is split across multiple lines in each cell, more technically speaking, separated by carriage returns. i.e., the text in the cell is separated by pressing ALT + ENTER. see the…
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INDEX and MATCH – an efficient alternative to VLOOKUP
Although VLOOKUP in Excel is a very useful function, it suffers a drawback. If the lookup value to be searched is not in the first column of lookup table, VLOOKUP wouldn’t work. In the last part of this learning series, titled “VLOOKUP: Right to Left Lookup” I have taken you through a…
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VLOOKUP: Right to Left Lookup
We all now know that VLOOKUP has one major constraint that the column in the lookup table from where the lookup value is to be searched should be the first column in the lookup table. Here is a tricky way that you can use to overcome this constraint. The trick…
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VLOOKUP: Approximate match example
In the first part of this VLOOUP series, I have taken you through a simple example of VLOOKUP where while searching for the lookup value, we were doing an exact match. Now lets see an example scenario of approximate match. Scenario: You have a table showing the percentage of discount…