LucasWaffyWaf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 28 days agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-square302fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1263arrow-down1message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 28 days agomessage-square302fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrubbleslinkfedilinkEnglish32•28 days agoThe amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
minus-square@rovingnothing29@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink19•28 days agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-square@fubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•26 days agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squaremesamunelinkfedilinkEnglish5•28 days agoGood software starts in Excel honestly. But oh god should you not stay there… Its not designed as a database indeed. Access is the worst of both worlds.
minus-square@CileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilink13•28 days agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-square@Strider@thelemmy.clublinkfedilink4•27 days agoClose enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.
The amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
Excel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
Excel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
Stop… Stop… I’m already dead
Good software starts in Excel honestly. But oh god should you not stay there… Its not designed as a database indeed.
Access is the worst of both worlds.
There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Close enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.