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The Google App Suite ( or G-Suite) of products is a powerful and free alternative to the traditional Office Suite and includes among others Docs, Sheets and Slides. Google Sheets offers full spreadsheet functionality and in this post and sample, we show how data stored in Google Sheets spreadsheets can be accessed with SQL. This post assumes that the reader is familar with standard spreadsheet terms like sheet, range and functions. Google Script The primary programming language used here is Google App Script, a javascript look alike that can be used to enhance and extend G-Suite products. Google script can also be interleaved with traditional HTML / CSS / JavaScript to create an elegant user interface as is shown in this example. A Google Script project sits in the Google Drive just like any other Sheet, Doc or Slides and consists of code in a code.gs file along with html files for the interface. Google Script functionality can be built into other Google products but in this exam...

My presentation on Quantum Computers at the Cypher 2017 conference in Bangalore on 21 September 2017 more information about Quantum Computers is available in an earlier blog post .

The weekend of 8th - 10th July 2017 was a little different from most other weekends. First, late on Friday night, the Airtel network in the NCR region went down because of a data corruption in one of their critical computers. Then, and the exact time is not known, someone hacked, or illegally accessed, the Jio customer database, retrieved confidential identity data about customers, including phone and Aadhaar numbers, and published the same on a public website. Finally, and again the exact time is not known, something unpleasant happened to the National Stock Exchange computers so that when the market opened on Monday morning, nobody could trade for almost the entire day. It is possible that these three events were independent, random events but as Goldfinger says, in Ian Fleming’s eponymous novel, “ Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action. " So let us not have any delusions about incompetence or equipment malfunction. This was a cyber...