LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 28 days agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-square301fedilinkarrow-up1271file-text
arrow-up1271message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 28 days agomessage-square301fedilinkfile-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@[email protected]linkfedilink21•28 days agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-squaremesamunelinkfedilinkEnglish8•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@[email protected]linkfedilink13•28 days agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•26 days agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•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.
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
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.