LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 27 天前What was "the incident" at your work place?message-squaremessage-square290fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1258arrow-down1message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 27 天前message-square290fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·27 天前The 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-up19arrow-down2·27 天前Excel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·25 天前Excel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·25 天前Stop… Stop… I’m already dead
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·27 天前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.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·26 天前There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-squareStrider@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·26 天前Close 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.