• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You use what ya got, and you don’t buy database software or hire a database guy until you know you need one

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      But access comes with office, so if you have excel you have at least a software that is intended to be used as a DB (efficacy aside)

      • micka190@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Let’s be real, using Excel as a makeshift database is probably still better than actually using Access lol

        • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 months ago

          When I started studying IT at a Berufskolleg (German word, literal transaltion would be something like job college or job school), we started learning about databases by using Access. We were all so happy when we were done with that and just used SQL. I fucking hate Access.

        • sevan@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          The only use case I can see for Access is when you absolutely must have a database and your company will not provide you a real database solution. I have experience with both, but haven’t touched Access in years (and hope to never do so again). To be fair, I also regularly use Excel for things that I should probably be using Word for because it is easier to get formatting right in Excel.

    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Probably true for most companies but I worked at one that had plenty of DB servers and developers, even developed their own database tech. Still, Excelitis as we called it was rampant.