LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 7 months agoWhat was "the incident" at your work place?message-square295fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1263arrow-down1message-squareWhat was "the incident" at your work place?LucasWaffyWaf to Ask [email protected] • 7 months agomessage-square295fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrubbleslinkfedilinkEnglish32•7 months 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]linkfedilink19•7 months agoExcel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•7 months agoExcel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.
minus-squaremesalinkfedilinkEnglish5•7 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•7 months agoThere’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•7 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.