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["Grainge, Derek" <DGG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have to confirm that this is so - we have a few 
> transatlantic students,
> and they say that they have to use Excel with forms & 
> modules, using vast,
> flat tables as relational databases. And before anyone 
> argues, yes you can,
> yes it does work, yes there are serious limitations for /real/
> applications, but its good enough for the course.
> 

I teach As/A2 ICT, and Computing.   I teach students about ER diagrams and
data definition tables; I think I need a *real* relational database to do
that efficiently.   Exam boards set work which involves creating forms and
subforms.   There is NO WAY I would ask students to use EXcel for this sort
of stuff.   Yes, anything is possible if you're prepared to try hard enough,
but there's usually a 'sensible' way of doing it, and that's not Excel.   I
think I'd rather revive my licance for an old DOS-based Paradox than move to
Excel.


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