Timeline for What methods are available to show colleagues the advantages of a database+application solution over Excel?
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 5:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/605245642605244416 | ||
| May 23, 2015 at 8:04 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| May 23, 2015 at 8:03 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/a/7288/31260 |
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| Jul 26, 2013 at 9:25 | history | edited | boatingcow | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 310 characters in body |
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| Jul 25, 2013 at 22:39 | comment | added | imel96 | Database + application could very well be database + Excel. My colleague uses it to present numbers from database to internal Excel user. You just tell excel to read from database (dsn). For external users we have app to generate html from the same database. | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 16:50 | answer | added | Jalayn | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 16:26 | answer | added | Michael Durrant | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 16:21 | comment | added | Michael Durrant | Maybe not experts at databases or even Excel but compared to most they may be expert in their business domain and as that (should) drive the decisions that's ok. | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 16:17 | answer | added | Meredith Poor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 12:41 | answer | added | Walter Mitty | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 12:27 | comment | added | boatingcow | @avner - I agree that in some situtations you are 100% right as deer points out. Although, one of the problems I see all the time is that my colleagues aren't necessarily experts...! | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 11:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 25, 2013 at 11:26 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | It's not profitable to impose your worldview on experts in their domain. What you can do, though, is prototype an application and showcase it. Start small, make interface with existing Excel spreadsheets easy, and always test your ideas before showing them off. | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 11:24 | answer | added | Pieter B | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 11:14 | comment | added | Avner Shahar-Kashtan | Don't rule out the possibility that the disadvantages of your proposed plan outweigh the advantages. Excel is a wonderful tool for non-programmers. | |
| Jul 25, 2013 at 11:11 | history | asked | boatingcow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |