I often hear people referring to Microsoft Excel as a database—but that couldn't be further from the truth. Compared to true database systems, Excel is insecure, hits size limits too quickly, and ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Last year, it emerged that Health New Zealand used an Excel spreadsheet as its "primary data file" for managing and analysing its financial performance. This made collection and consolidation of data ...