I have no experience with it (I'd be interested in comments from those who do), but the premise is intriguing and it appears to be non-vaporware, if still beta. (N.B. It appears to be going in the opposite direction, in some ways, from what the posterous page is proposing.)
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Separately, I'm reminded of a recent page I encountered where someone describes (including how-to steps) using SQLite as a backend for Excel, for handling large datasets that benefit from the Excel interface (without getting into the whole Access thing/disputes).
Googling, it looks like the below is the page. I haven't read through it, yet, but I'd made a mental note to do so sometime. I'll still mention it in case it intrigues anyone else as it did me.
http://www.resolverhacks.net/resolver.html
http://code.google.com/p/resolver/
I have no experience with it (I'd be interested in comments from those who do), but the premise is intriguing and it appears to be non-vaporware, if still beta. (N.B. It appears to be going in the opposite direction, in some ways, from what the posterous page is proposing.)
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Separately, I'm reminded of a recent page I encountered where someone describes (including how-to steps) using SQLite as a backend for Excel, for handling large datasets that benefit from the Excel interface (without getting into the whole Access thing/disputes).
Googling, it looks like the below is the page. I haven't read through it, yet, but I'd made a mental note to do so sometime. I'll still mention it in case it intrigues anyone else as it did me.
http://blog.gobansaor.com/2009/03/14/sqlite-as-the-mp3-of-da...