Re: Serial, concurrent, parallel

"Liz Tuddenham" <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:1r69dpn.1bbzdc81ozzc9wN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid...

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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On 1/16/2025 5:03 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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All of those can be done on a spreadsheet.  ...and similar checks can be
done between cells in different rows.  The check formula is written into
a 'hidden' cell and the final result is displayed in a 'locked' cell.
If someone puts in faulty data, the spreadsheet can't stop them but it
can ensure that the dud data doesn't appear in the output.
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I use spreadsheets for all sorts of things: calculating component
values, customers and accounts, encoding sensitive information,
addressing envelopes, uploading invoices to the Web ...etc.
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I tried using a database to keep track of my Christmas Cards, but find
it slow and restrictive compared with a spreadsheet.

Not sure what you're doing wrong but once I'd learned to use
https://mariadb.org/ And
https://www.heidisql.com/
I never went anywhere near spreadsheets again.
The last time Excel opened was accidentally when I was trying to see the contents of a csv file.

The only time I make a spreadsheet is when I want to send data to someone else and they can't handle a database.
I wouldn't put customers and accounts anywhere near a spreadsheet.
I can remember using a spreadsheet to model an op amp circuit but that was many years before I had LTSpice.

Databases can also be backed up as human readable text files.
Just export data as SQL.
This gives me peace of mind that whatever software is or isn't available in the future I can always read my data.

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