LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 30 days agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-squaremessage-square302fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·30 days agoThe amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
minus-squarerovingnothing29@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·30 days agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·28 days agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoStop… Stop… I’m already dead
minus-squareStrider@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·29 days agoClose enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·30 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-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·30 days agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
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
Close enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.
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