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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'm working with a Mac-centric non-profit that has accumulated a list of 12k contacts in an excel spreadsheet. They would like to convert it to a database. I'm ...

Spreadsheets are great tools. Spreadsheet programs have been around for over 25 years and many contractors have built some pretty respectable spreadsheets over the years for their estimating.