Everyone uses Excel as a database, and Excel should absolutely tackle this. It’s like “Everyone is using Toyota to carry children to schools in underdeveloped c

Everyone uses Excel as a database, and Excel should absolutely tackle this. It’s like “Everyone is using Toyota to carry children to schools in underdeveloped countries” so let’s put seatbelts, you know, even if it’s not the intended usage. The French government believed that Covid cases had stopped increasing, because their federated Excel spreadsheet was silently truncating data at 1 million rows. Accidents like this happen all the time. Access should be based on Excel, only adding sheet types: single-record forms, SQL reports, pivot tables. In fact, pivot tables are the proof that Excel is a database tool.