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arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkProton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editorproton.meForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAbusing Excel as a crappy database is a very real and very widespread problem.
minus-squaregibmiser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYou use what ya got, and you don’t buy database software or hire a database guy until you know you need one
minus-squareTakumidesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoBut 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)
minus-squaremicka190@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoLet’s be real, using Excel as a makeshift database is probably still better than actually using Access lol
Abusing Excel as a crappy database is a very real and very widespread problem.
You use what ya got, and you don’t buy database software or hire a database guy until you know you need one
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)
Let’s be real, using Excel as a makeshift database is probably still better than actually using Access lol