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Well I've seen a great deal of people comparing two Excels by quickly alt-tabbing, and doing Sheet1!A1=Sheet2!A1 comparisons in a third sheet, and dragging the
by harperlee 3y ago
Well I've seen a great deal of people comparing two Excels by quickly alt-tabbing, and doing Sheet1!A1=Sheet2!A1 comparisons in a third sheet, and dragging the formula.
Yes, that's horrible. But millions of people can autonomously resort to this, and they would be incapable of doing anything with a SQLite file.
Same with version control: you just add _v17_20230909_final to the name. Yes, it's horrible. Yes, it's buggy. But yes, it also runs the world.
- btreecat 3y ago>But millions of people can autonomously resort to this, and they would be incapable of doing anything with a SQLite file. Are you trying to suggest that either you can't do that with sqlite, or that people didn't require training to do this in Excel?
- harperlee 3y agoharperlee: open list of affordances that an average user comfortably identifies with an Excel file, not really with sqlite sofixa: version and comparison is not really supported in Excel harperlee: agree that software support is not there, but in practice average user knows how to do it and is quite comfortable doing it in Excel btreecat: sqlite also has filenames and you can learn how to use it harperlee: agree on the filename, Excel files and sqlite files are externally, opaquely versionable in the same way. the point about people learning is moot though, average user already knows Excel because they were forced to in the past, but does not have the time to learn new things.