On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Gene Young wrote:
Richard Detwiler wrote:
I'm a bit confused by the statement about how information on users
shouldn't be stored in a spreadsheet, because it is so easy to corrupt the
data.
Does this suggest that the only information that should be put in a
spreadsheet is data where it doesn't matter if it gets corrupted?
If so, that would significantly reduce the usefulness of spreadsheets.
I assume there is some key point that I'm missing, so please enlighten ....
thanks.
Basically a database is for storing and retrieving information. A
spreadsheet is primarily for performing calculations on data. In common
usage, people have come to use spreadsheets to store information because the
learning curve is much shallower than learning to work with a database.
The answer you stated addresses why people tend to use spreadsheets to
store data. What I would like to know is why you think information in a
spreadsheet can be corrupted more easily than that in a data base. As
the previous said: "I assume there is some key point that I'm missing,
so please enlighten ...."
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