And to reply to your edit: I hadn't thought of it as a database. The typical use I see is using Excel as a frontend for interacting with the database data. To

And to reply to your edit: I hadn't thought of it as a database. The typical use I see is using Excel as a frontend for interacting with the database data. To be sure, people do use Excel as a DB, but I think it's handier to think of it as an interactive mesh than a DB. Sort of like how pandas with IPython is a great way to interact with and explore data. ... Dang, imagine if you had pandas running with Excel on top. That would probably be pretty cool.