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[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse you! I stare at SQL all day tyvm!...

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And SQL data is stored in tables so it's basically just Excel

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Nooo it's different!

How often I end up pasting stuff into excel to help me organize data and figure out how I want it to look before writing a query is irrelevant!

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

SQL is just Excel with Friends.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

And pivot tables connecting to a server database are basically SQL for idiots.