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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:26:48 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Why do so many people treat Excel as a database? 🤔

   • Seth Galitzer (sgsax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:29:48 JST Seth Galitzer

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     @nixCraft Counterpoint: Why do so many people use Excel?

   • Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️ (mikaellundin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:34:02 JST Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️

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     @nixCraft because the UI of databases usually sucks, so you try to avoid them until you can’t.

   • 拔刀问路 (longlivecarryon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:37:41 JST 拔刀问路

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     @nixCraft

     because is simple, easy use,

   • Artur (h0m3@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 01:59:14 JST Artur

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     @nixCraft Because a database is excell but harder to use hahahaha

   • schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:02:39 JST schrotthaufen

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     @nixCraft With power query it is🙊

   • Abimelex (abimelex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:10:55 JST Abimelex

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     @nixCraft I see no problem there, but most people treat Excel as Word with tables. Actually only a fraction utilize some functions that also a DB would offer.

   • expiredtoken (expiredtoken@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:42:01 JST expiredtoken

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     @nixCraft The User Interface of Excel is pretty much like CLI: extremely flexible and versatile, excellent for building ad-hoc tools. That's hard to beat! The only serious alternative product that is not a full blown database requiring an army of developers to build a freaking form is Filemaker.

   • Rthaar (rthaar@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 02:48:36 JST Rthaar

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     @nixCraft because you can actually use SQL in excel. Does the job fairly decent !!

   • bargoderea (bargoderea@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:19:22 JST bargoderea

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     @nixCraft due to the lack of a more proper alternative

   • 0xf02d (0xf02d@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 15:59:21 JST 0xf02d

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     @nixCraft It’s like phone camera vs dedicated camera: the tool you have with you and know how to use is the tool you end up using.