ActiveXLS

Excel as a database

October 31st, 2006

“Why do people keep putting data in spreadsheets that obviously belongs in a database? Oddly enough, part of the reason came to me in a fairly unlikely place, reading to my kids before bed. We had just plopped on the couch to read a book when my kindergartener made me back up and read the cover of the book, pointing out to me the author and the illustrator. That was an enlightening moment; from a very early age we start learning the structure of documents. Title, author, and date of publication, page number, etc, etc is reinforced at every grade level.”

This article points out one major mistake that most users do when using spreadsheets: mistaking them for a database.

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