While traditional spreadsheets remain a staple for basic data entry and simple calculations, data professionals frequently ...

I was just thinking about this: fundamentally, what is the difference between a spreadsheet file with many sheets (technically, isn't it a relational database?) and an SQL DB? There has to be ...

New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

Spreadsheets are super powerful, but they have limits. This article examines four big challenges of working in spreadsheets, and shows how data science tools such as notebooks can cleverly address ...

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Over the last decade or so, the modern ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the "killer app" that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...

So much time is lost when you’re constantly moving between spreadsheets and databases. When you must use one app to organize information and another to analyze it, things can get clunky and overly ...

Not a lot of thought goes into the average spreadsheet. Yet, increasingly, spreadsheets are becoming an essential tool for data teams. Entrepreneur David Kircos knows this well; he previously worked ...

I'm working with a Mac-centric non-profit that has accumulated a list of 12k contacts in an excel spreadsheet. They would like to convert it to a database. I'm ...