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Re: Frog
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:00:26 GMT
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:56:55 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
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> Maybe if I had a 10 meg spreadsheet I needed to run
> calculations on or something, but in average, day-to-day stuff, nah...
If someone has a 10 meg spreadsheet, it's time to move it to Access, at
least. Maybe even move it to a real RDBMS.[1]
--Steve
[1] Don't get me wrong, I like Access a lot. But sometimes you just
need to push all that processing off on some other machine. Like a
Linux box running Sybase.
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| (...) That depends entirely on what kind of spreadsheet it is - some types just aren't suited to being pushed in a DB. (...) Well, why are you running Access at all, if you have a Linux box? All kidding aside, for a nice C/S DB solution, you _could_ (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) But how stable is it? :-) (...) Hmm.. I believe the difference was... 1-2% at most. Of course, games traditionally do better on celerons than Office apps, because of the lack of cache. I'm not sure how that balance has shifted with the albeit (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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