Excel spreadsheets are fantastic for one-time, throwaway calculations. If you want to save, share, or reuse anything, though, it's a one-way ticket to versioni

Excel spreadsheets are fantastic for one-time, throwaway calculations. If you want to save, share, or reuse anything, though, it's a one-way ticket to versioning hell, and you need to run scheduled reports off a database. Excel gets really dangerous when people who don't know anything about databases try to use it as a database.