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Originally posted by onetime2
That being said, how much data is in each field and how many records will he be creating?
Excel allows for more than 16,000 rows and 250+ columns on each sheet. Unless the cells need to contain more characters than Excel allows, why not use Excel since he's already comfortable with it?
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Originally posted by ratbastid
Are you really sure that a database is the thing he needs? The data you describe would work well in a spreadsheet, and some clever sorting would probably work in place of database queries. Especially given he's already proficient in Excel...
A lot of times my clients will tell me they need X when they really need Y. It's part of my job to gently convince them otherwise.
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Great minds and all that good stuff.
