Years ago, I was involved with writing a book about Microso…
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Years ago, I was involved with writing a book about Microsoft Excel, but soon after I started the book, whaddyaknow, my publishing company went under. Nevertheless, in doing some of the early footwork for that book, I asked a lot of people how they use Excel, and a shocking number of them turned out to use it like a database. They had database fear, so they loaded all their records into big Excel sheets, and used the spreadsheet essentially like a flat-file, non-relational database. This still c
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