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scaling to millions (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 2 years ago by soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 2 years ago (7 children)

There's a really fine line between needing a spreadsheet and needing a database and I've not yet found it. It's probably more fuzzy than I realized but I have participated on so many programming projects that amounted to a spreadsheet that lived too long.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

At some point you end up surpassing databases and end up with a giant pile of spreadsheets called a data warehouse

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