Governments, funders and scientific communities must move beyond lip-service and commit to data-sharing practices and platforms. Everyone agrees that there are good reasons for having open data.

If you have an Excel spreadsheet that contains empty data, such as empty rows or columns, and plot a graph from the spreadsheet, Excel plots all empty data. Microsoft Excel 2010 does not plot ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...