On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> I can honestly say that I never once in my life before now thought >> that 2 gigabytes would ever be a practical limit in the world of >> spreadsheets. :-) > > Oh my - you'd be so wrong. :-P
Apparently. :) Although someone else's example of millions of lines of log file was revealing. Me, I'd tend to view that as a database problem, not a spreadsheet problem. I generally see spreadsheets as a math/formulas solution. But (ab)using spreadsheets instead of databases is a tradition at least as old as the spreadsheet, so I should have seen that coming. > That's kinda like saying "640 KB is enough for anybody" ... My reaction was specifically to a spreadsheet that big, not the plain data size. There's lots of other cases where I would find that much memory entirely justified. Databases, for example. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
