LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-squaremessage-square281fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1259arrow-down1message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square281fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 months 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-up21arrow-down2·3 months agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoStop… Stop… I’m already dead
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·3 months 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-up13·3 months agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-squareStrider@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months 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.