I don't like that definition because Excel as software hasn't scaled with computer hardware. Excel isn't a database, and isn't designed to be one. To put it in

I don't like that definition because Excel as software hasn't scaled with computer hardware. Excel isn't a database, and isn't designed to be one. To put it into perspective, people were working with 1M+ record datasets in the 1990s. I tried loading a 300k record file in Excel 2010 the other day and it crashed.