LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-square299fedilinkarrow-up1272
arrow-up1272message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agomessage-square299fedilink
minus-squareScrubbleslinkfedilinkEnglish32•11 months agoThe amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
minus-squaremesalinkfedilinkEnglish8•11 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•11 months agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•11 months agoClose enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•11 months agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•11 months agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
The amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
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.
Excel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
Stop… Stop… I’m already dead
Excel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.