• melroy
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    236 days ago

    And don’t get me started with special macros and basic code that only works in ms office.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 days ago

        Or Access, which is the real reason my office will never switch. It’s an ever growing mountain of labor to transfer that to something else

      • melroy
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        46 days ago

        yea who ever things that is a good idea, while we have MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Valkey should be fired.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 days ago

          I just don’t know how to use databases like those, so I just use excel for my small business.

          • melroy
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            35 days ago

            Then pick one DB and learn about it. The internet is full of documentation, tutorial, hands-on examples and even youtube videos.

            • @[email protected]
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              15 days ago

              I know that I should, and I’m technical enough to understand it. But the point I was making is that many people are not even close to technically proficient to learning it.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 days ago

        I’ve heard it said that Excel is the second best program for everything. DB? Excel. CRM? Excel. Word editor? Browser? Calendar? Doom? Yup, you guessed it.

        Just like Outlook, which my users essentialy used as a file storage… Sadly I’m not joking that when the first SSDs came out I had a user who I installed an SSD in his PC just to put his stupid PST files on, because having them on a HDD would cause his Outlook to have a meltdown.

        I’m so happy I don’t have end users any more…