> ad-hoc data entry is very awkward I understand that a spreadsheet "row" often isn't going to be a normalized SQL table row and all that, but isn't mapping th

> ad-hoc data entry is very awkward I understand that a spreadsheet "row" often isn't going to be a normalized SQL table row and all that, but isn't mapping the spreadsheet cell ranges into such a schema technically the only problem here? If you had a script that watches your spreadsheet for changes and can drop you into a SQL shell whenever you want, you'd have it both ways.