On 6-10-2018 18:23, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 6, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Roger Schlueter <se...@cox.net> wrote: >> In addition to the freebies mentioned by Luuk, WordPerfect Office X9 is a >> commercial product that includes all of Excel's features including >> import/export of Excel data. > I guess neither of you read the article, because the point of the original > question isn’t to get recommendations for yet another spreadsheet program, > it’s to get a program that lets us get away from spreadsheets-as-databases, > because when such creations get complicated, they become very difficult to > debug. > > (The article is about a guy who hates the fact that he allowed it to become > known that he can debug these monstrosities, with the result that people keep > bringing them to him.) > > What we want is a SQLite-based program along the lines of Access or > FileMaker, preferably with some kind of cloud capability.
i never did anything with FileMaker, but if Excel is a no-way-to-go, than Access is most certainly too ! and, yes, i did not read the article... (sorry!) Even a simple program (or (gui?)-interface on top of sqlite will not stop those Excel-whizz-kids from crafting things in Excel. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
