Comments on: Why a spreadsheet isn’t a database http://knowledgescape.co.uk/2009/05/why-a-spreadsheet-isnt-a-database/ preserving the knowledge Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Access Developer http://knowledgescape.co.uk/2009/05/why-a-spreadsheet-isnt-a-database/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Access Developer Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:39:20 +0000 http://knowledgescape.co.uk/?p=122#comment-1633 I could not agree more, you would not believe the number of times I pick up new clients who have been using spreadsheets as a database, only to realise some way down the line that they have a bunch of unvalidated next to useless data. The when you ask them for business rules to validate the data in their new database they say 'We did not have these restrictions in Excel' amazing! I could not agree more, you would not believe the number of times I pick up new clients who have been using spreadsheets as a database, only to realise some way down the line that they have a bunch of unvalidated next to useless data.

The when you ask them for business rules to validate the data in their new database they say ‘We did not have these restrictions in Excel’ amazing!

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