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Excel can do SQL as well, and it actually has abstracted data connectors capable of much more than just SQL and you can easily provide your own connectors too,

Excel can do SQL as well, and it actually has abstracted data connectors capable of much more than just SQL and you can easily provide your own connectors too, and much more than just connectors - Excel is used e.g. as a full-fledged trading station at some places. It's capabilities like these why Excel runs the world, it's not some accident of history. You don't need to do stuff like this all the time, but it makes no sense to use two office suites, so you use the more capable one.

dijit 4y ago
As a person in the world who has done PNLs for pretty large companies (in excel) which constituted 30GB of working memory to open. No, that is not why Excel runs the world. Those capabilities are not used even slightly in the companies I’ve worked at.
- EUROCARE 4y ago
  Funny, I'm using them right now, and the entire office around me too.
  - dijit 4y ago
    Didn’t know you ran the world.
    - EUROCARE 4y ago
      Well I'm just a support for that, but yeah I guess you could say that's what's being done around here (huge amount of managed assets and properties).