Re:New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with sing...
by rrr_oh_man on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:59AM
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These days I default to Google Sheets for almost anything.
App Script is quite powerful and easier to write and understand than VBA imho.
I'm on a Mac so can't move to Access. I've thought about FileMaker, but am considering Panorama X because unlike FileMaker it reportedly allows undoing almost anything, while FileMaker is like the typical database in a record commit not being undoable.
(Yes, I know that not allowing such is good practice, which is why I am not a database admin.)
I've heard good things about Panorama X, and it has a spreadsheet-like UI. However, I've used Excel enough to know that I haven't tapped more than a small fraction of its ability, especially things like Power Query. As much as I loathe VBA, what if the cost of moving to a "real" database isn't the up-front cost or conversion time, but the longer-term inflexibility of Panorama (and, pretty much, anything else in my price range) compared to the beast that is Excel?