Some places there is a vicious cycle where management (on behalf of the company or following the corporate culture) make demands on the staff without appropriate consideration or compensation and...

Eric M Russell (1/24/2014)

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Excel can be a cog in a large organization's data processing lifecycle, somthing that exists peripheral to the RDMS, but that's not always the case.

There are a...

phegedusich (1/24/2014)

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"While we considered changing to a bigint, this was a third party product and they did not want to allow us to alter the schema."

There's your problem. Perhaps testing...

zerko (1/23/2014)

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Gary Varga (1/23/2014)

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OCTom (1/23/2014)

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As far as available choices... everyone has their limit as to when it becomes a problem. Personally, if a restaurant has five choices, I would likely...

Jim P. (1/23/2014)

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It is us in IT whose responsibility is to highlight how a solution can be provided with as many of the risks mitigated without stripping the users of...

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (1/23/2014)

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Gary Varga (1/23/2014)

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patrickmcginnis59 10839 (1/22/2014)

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Gary Varga (1/22/2014)

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Jim P. (1/21/2014)

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Eric M Russell (1/21/2014)

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One feature that would be very useful in Excel is the option to create strongly typed columns...

OCTom (1/23/2014)

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I find it amazing that people can't...

I agree with the distraction. Give most people too much to think about and I think they suffer from a personal analysis paralysis. I know I do.

Oh, and for those...

djackson 22568 (1/22/2014)

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steve.neumann (1/22/2014)

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this article made me laugh. there is rarely a day where you do not have some sort of grammatical mistake etc. there's even one here...

..."and possibly impress...

I agree with patrickmcginnis59 10839 that it is all there (and has been for some time).

patrickmcginnis59 10839 (1/22/2014)

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Gary Varga (1/22/2014)

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Jim P. (1/21/2014)

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Eric M Russell (1/21/2014)

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One feature that would be very useful in Excel is the option to create strongly typed columns or regions. That, and...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/22/2014)

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chrisn-585491 (1/22/2014)

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I would say that we have more monolingual programmers now - programmers, including "senior" programmers, who only know one language, whatever it happens to...

Eric M Russell (1/22/2014)

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Jim P. (1/21/2014)

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Eric M Russell (1/21/2014)

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One feature that would be very useful in Excel is the option to create strongly typed columns or regions. That, and also...

Now that is something to consider. I guess there are a reasonable number of programmers who...

I think Apps are here to stay and they won't replace other types of applications just like browser applications did not replace desktop applications (although many predicted that they would...