When modeling a report that includes grand totals, always take an extra minute or two to build a summary that totals all of your extracted values to ensure that you’ve modeled the data as accurately as you think you have. You’ll be happy to see that the totals balance to the report.
But you’ll be thrilled […]

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The agenda for the 2008 Datawatch User Conference to be held in Phoenix Arizona was recently published, and I’m very pleased that I’ve been selected to once again provide a presentation to the group.
The conference is a fantastic opportunity to learn about Monarch and the other Datawatch products with which you may not have had […]

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When including numeric values in the expression to build up a character string, it’s common to use the Trim (removes leading and trailing spaces) and Str (converts numerics to characters) functions together, such as: Trim(Str(MyValue))
The equivalent when programming in Excel is the Cstr() function, so why not go ahead and build yourself a custom function […]

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