I have been really hard on Excel lately. Excel is an excellent tool. Tools can be misused and abused, but it’s not their fault. I should know this being an advocate for Toad, but I digress. Updated on 1/5/2011 to include 4th Method and add note on ‘Display all results in grid’ option. You want [...]
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Access of Evil
A play on words – the Axis of Evil, three countries that foster or promote terrorism. This is not a history lesson or political discussion, go here for that. So what is the Access of Evil? I would propose that the following practices conspire to bring down any well-ordered collection of data: MS Access MS [...]
Excel and Oracle? Yes, but Should You?
Microsoft has a lot to be proud of. They helped pioneer desktop computing. They have very successful platforms like SQL Server and Sharepoint. They are even working on a new mobile phone that doesn’t support copy and paste. But, I would argue their most popular product in use today is Excel. Mayhaps ‘popular’ isn’t the [...]
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