Azure SQL database To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. From the Home or Dashboard screen, click the Create a resource (+) link.

Not anymore: Excel 2013’s table tools include features that make it easy to link charts and cells, perform searches, and create dynamically updated reports, just like—yes—a relational database.

The ease and ubiquity of SQL have even led the creators of many “ NoSQL ” or non-relational data stores, such as Hadoop, to adopt subsets of SQL or come up with their own SQL-like query languages.

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we ...