[python-win32] Running SQL queries on excel sheets

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Fri Mar 14 19:01:38 CET 2008


Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
> In a perfect world I would get all the data into our SQL server and
> write a front end for everyone that needs to access/modify the data, but
> that's a ways down the road. I've still got to convince people in the
> company that excel is NOT a good way to store database info!
>   

I read an article in the trade press about two years ago that said Excel 
was the number one database application in the entire world.

It's simple, it's ubiquitous, and it's visual.  Until you need 
reporting, it's not a bad way to go.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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