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  • TomMasz@piefed.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzThoughts??
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    4 days ago

    “Sometimes Excel is what’s available.”

    I worked for a Big Company that was cutting back and dropped their Oracle contracts, forcing all the DBAs to work in Access. Then they fired all the DBAs, forcing everyone to either try to figure out Access or switch to Excel. Guess which way they went.

    In my last job at that company, my department had built an Excel spreadsheet (database) so large and full of calculations they had to request money to update our machines to 64-bit Windows and 16GB RAM just to run it.





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