You can multi filter on a spreadsheet.
also, unless you are talking thousands, a spreadsheet is really
simple. As for exporting data, csv is very common, in fact for some
financial purposes we regularly transfer DB/2 data into csv for use
in spreadsheets.
I used to work for a CRM company, and the amount of times we recived
data as a csv file was considerable.
If you look at the type of Business Heather seems to have (Nice sites
by the way), even a thousand or so would be handled fairly competently.
(I know for a fact that News International in wapping used to handle
all their paper ordering on one spreadsheet....scary if you think
about it.)
On 3 Jul 2005, at 13:55, Richard McKay wrote:
On 3/7/05 12:02, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
as much as i hate to say it as a programmer - but if you are talking
about a few hundred you may as well use a spreadsheet..
On 3 Jul 2005, at 11:58, Richard McKay wrote:
My knowledge of spreadsheets is very limited but I thought that one
significant feature that would be missing by doing this instead of
using a
database (relational not flat) is the lack of ability to filter
multiple
parameters (sort by name, postcode, product, year in a single
sweep)...
Can that be done (without the pain of single sorts and narrowing
thereafter?
Another reason that I personally thought one wouldn't want to go
spreadsheet
route is that in the future (and lets face it if there is no growth
then...)
a database would / could expand with one if it is set up properly...I
shudder to think about trying to export/import anything that a
business
solely relies upon...
There must be a programmer on this list that has done something
like this in
MySQL (even without a GUI) that wouldn't cost the world?
Having said that I don't make my money programming and have no *real*
conception of what amount of energy goes into such a commercial
project from
start to end...
Richard
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