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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by fjsolwmv on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:22AM (#15758003)
.NET and ODBC already provide C# and SQL, no?
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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by outsideoflife on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:22AM (#15764556)
Yes...but. You can't do a SQL join between the data in an excel table and a remote database via a nice GUI front end using just .NET and ODBC. I am evaluating this product at the moment, and it looks really useful for Finance/analyst types
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