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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Connecting Excel to Linux Databases

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 12, 2005

[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford
for this link. ]

“Spreadsheets represent one of the best front-end tools
available to manipulate financial data. Microsoft Excel is the most
popular spreadsheet available today. One of the basic problems with
spreadsheets is that they just cannot transfer data to and from
databases in an easy way.

“One way to transfer data is to use macros, which is far from
the best solution, as it really requires a great deal of technical
expertise and is also very cumbersome…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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