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by pixelatedindex 601 days ago
Maybe if you have millions of rows you might have trouble with excel. Other than that, from a data storage perspective an Excel is just a database that’s human readable.
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Not really. It generally won't have a schema. You generally can't write queries against it.
> You generally can't write queries against it.

Yes you can, there are a lot of different ways of doing it depending on what type of data you have and how you structured it.