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What was "the incident" at your work place? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 31 points 3 months ago

The amount of times I hear people telling me that "I should just do it in Excel". Excel. Is not. A database.

[-] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Excel is a whole OS unto itself. Like Emacs except you can get out of it.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Excel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 3 months ago

Stop... Stop... I'm already dead

[-] Strider@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago

Close enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.

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