The best solution to this, in my experience, has been a data-backend for Excel. No, I'm not talking about connecting via ODBC. Rather, generating Excel documen

The best solution to this, in my experience, has been a data-backend for Excel. No, I'm not talking about connecting via ODBC. Rather, generating Excel documents from a data store: which may possibly be versioned and so on. Excel is not a good place to store data. It is good to work with data. It's really, really good to view data. People love it for that. But when you start to store a lot of data in Excel ...