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• Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But access comes with office, so if you have excel you have at least a software that is intended to be used as a DB (efficacy aside)

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  • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s be real, using Excel as a makeshift database is probably still better than actually using Access lol

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    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I started studying IT at a Berufskolleg (German word, literal transaltion would be something like job college or job school), we started learning about databases by using Access. We were all so happy when we were done with that and just used SQL. I fucking hate Access.

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    • sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only use case I can see for Access is when you absolutely must have a database and your company will not provide you a real database solution. I have experience with both, but haven’t touched Access in years (and hope to never do so again). To be fair, I also regularly use Excel for things that I should probably be using Word for because it is easier to get formatting right in Excel.

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      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have you ever tried just using Markdown?

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      • ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And you’ve never heard of sqlite

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• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably true for most companies but I worked at one that had plenty of DB servers and developers, even developed their own database tech. Still, Excelitis as we called it was rampant.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothings more permanent than a temporary solution.

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