alt Hacker NewsAll data begins life in a spreadsheet and dies in a spreadsheet. Automation is an illusion; databases are illusions. Only Excel is real.
All data begins life in a spreadsheet and dies in a spreadsheet. Automation is an illusion; databases are illusions. Only Excel is real.
This reads like a joke, but I've known two DBAs who don't use database management tools beyond exporting whole tables to excel, making manual changes, and importing to update the tables. Scary stuff.