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Sure. That's why I said it wouldn't bother me if this was in the first few weeks of the pandemic or for one-off ad-hoc analysis. I actually use Excel for that all the time, including for tasks where technically a db is the correct solution. Working is better than perfect and everyone knows (sort of) how to use Excel. To still be using it in production this many months in is not acceptable. Someone should have taken that Excel based workflow and set it up to run through a database, they had the time to do it.



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