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Subject:Re: Re: Excel and large numbers of linked files From:Guy McDonald<gmcdonald -at- tiainfo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:49:01 -0500 (CDT)
>My understanding of the relationship between Access and Excel is that they
are pretty much two ways of viewing the same data. Each has some special
capabilities
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Interesting discussion -- don't forget about the limitations of working with
spreadsheets. Scalability is a big issue with recordset growth. Access has
limitations too, but it is a *relational database* and not a flat file type (if you
will) of a link-laden spreadsheet.
Guy McDonald
Information Development Manager
Technical Information Architects, Inc. http://www.tiainfo.com
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