Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-...
by alexbrower on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:42AM
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This is clearly a case of someone not knowing the limits of a technology / how to select or use a technology. Yes, more modern versions of Excel support many more rows than 65k. As a "power" excel user in the early 2000s, it's tiring to see this same mistake made. And I might have blamed MSFT in 2008. But the "modern" world has taken an absurdly boorish response to this virus. This unfortunately looks like another example.
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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-...
by alexbrower on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:50AM
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Forgot to mention: there's nothing inherently wrong with storing data in CSV files. One does have to think about consumption and processing. A Postgres database seems pretty reasonable to track information like this, but I wouldn't blame a CSV format for shortsightedness. We're not talking about actual big data here...