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I always see the programmer sentiment that "people should not be using excel for (project). It should be a database."

I am guessing by that they mean SQL? I dont know a thing about that except the acronym. The most ive done is a basic linux script and 2 hours of a VBA course. I suck at understanding programming, so id like to understand exactly how one uses a database vs excel. Like whay are the actual steps id have to do?

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[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The most simple way to understand this is that databases are made to be proof to failures. When you write a single value into the database a lot of things are happening behind to ensure something called ACID, by other hand, excel documents are a monolith file, doesn't have a mecanism behind to rely and ensure the integrity of the data.

Edit: changed the link to ACID.

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