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cyanydeez on July 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to b...

Basically what one needs is a db that treats excel as a basic unit of computing.

greggsy on July 7, 2022 | [–]

PowerQuery is actually pretty capable, but it’s effectively a modern plug-in bolted into Excel. They’ve kind of left Excel behind.

formercoder on July 7, 2022 | [–]

Except the xlsx has to be human friendly

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