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The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At that point you should just use a database.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

There are environments where Excel is used as glue that does faux-ETL for very unpredictable data which is so small in volume you don't even consider a database. Also, database would mean MS Access which is just icky so it was used only when necessary.