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Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by tomnipotent on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:35AM (#27928871)
> and typically it did not take weeks to do that.

You're not seeing the process and effort that went into it, which can be considerable.

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Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by beefield on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:54AM (#27928959)
I think you misread my comment. Some of the excel sheets were a result of considerable effort. Years of different people working on them. Converting those to SQL was not a tremendously large effort. That was made by me, so I kind of know the effort:)
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