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Re: Frog
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:45:03 GMT
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:00:26 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
Bliss) wrote:
> 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]
That depends entirely on what kind of spreadsheet it is - some types
just aren't suited to being pushed in a DB.
> [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.
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_ use a Win
NT box as the server. Of course, a NT cluster with a couple of dual
Xeon 450s will get you just about the speed of a single Linux Alpha.
Jasper
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Rilly? I guess that's possible, I just haven't seen them. I _have_ seen too many spreadsheets trying to be applications, because the person who put the spreadsheet together was an Excel pro, and didn't know there were better ways to present (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Frog
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| On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:53:16 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) In my department, the 2 of us, are neither Access nor Excel pros, however, the data we have needs to be presented as well as analyzed. We store the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Frog
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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