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by Maha-pudma 2080 days ago
I can attest to this. I move job and my new work place used to manage everything in excel. Something's still are. Realising excel could not scale, and with no support for IT for a proper solution the "tech" guy (that is good with computers but not a developer) was tasked with creating a "database". What we now have is essentially 3 excel spreadsheet tables in access that you can run SQL on and input data using access forms. No normalisation, no well anything really. We're now coming to the point where access is creaking at the seams. I'm confident with properly designed tables and queries we wouldn't be, and I'm no expert either, but it will have to fail before there's a concerted effort to redesign or god forbid IT do there jobs.