LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 28 days agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-squaremessage-square300fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 28 days agomessage-square300fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 days agoThe amount of times I hear people telling me that “I should just do it in Excel”. Excel. Is not. A database.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoStop… Stop… I’m already dead
minus-squarerovingnothing29@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 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-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-squareStrider@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 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 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.
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.