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Spreadsheets are one of those things where the risk seems ordinary if you just use an isolated one individually for a problem, but turns into a WMD at an exponential rate as you add more people and data connections
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Is there a standard scaling regimes sequence? Something like Paper PDF Text file/word doc Spreadsheet Spreadsheet++ on cloud No code db thing like knack Quick and dirty web app db like SQLite Proper db and warehouses Big data nosql/newsql db Big cloud distributed db things
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Clearly you haven’t seen how bad things can get I've seen people scrape data out of pdfs for analysis when it ended up getting used as archival form
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Maybe. It's just that everything else on the list is read/write, while PDF is read only (In theory. Hopefully. If you aren't dealing with a lawyer. In a sane world).
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