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Little Timmy Tables (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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A social media post by Santa Claus @Santaclaus@c.im. It says: A valiant effort has been made by Little Tim this year, who for some reason has decided to change his name to Tim); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];- HO HO HO! Nice try Tim. I don't use #SQL, I use several dozen interconnected #Excel spreadsheets, like a professional.
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[–] 72 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    15000 rows. 120 columns. One sheet. Creation date: 2011. A dedicated computer. Working at a multinational company is bad for mental health.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved "to the cloud" (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.
    Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

    Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It's a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it's perks)).
    Many parentheses, soz.
    Fuck excel, use a database!

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    I've seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn't even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.

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