Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

Data. Your business can't run without it. As a small-business owner, you need to track everything – from your inventory levels to the personal information of employees. Many entrepreneurs start off ...

I was just thinking about this: fundamentally, what is the difference between a spreadsheet file with many sheets (technically, isn't it a relational database?) and an SQL DB?<BR><BR>There has to be ...

When is a database not a database? When it is a spreadsheet. What do spreadsheets have to do with databases do you ask? Spreadsheets are actually very rudimentary databases and, while not advisable, ...

New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

For nearly four decades, the spreadsheet has been the single most important piece of software in finance. Long before ...