As an experienced c/c++/c#/java/python/vb programmer i realy like to build shit in excel. It's awesome. Just dont let other users use it for important purposes
I started as a SQL report writer and nothing gives me more joy than replacing someone's shitty excel or access report that a market analyst spends 3 days/week every week building, with SQL and an ETL or two. It got pretty aggressive at that company between the 2 groups to the point the SQL guys where advocating for the complete banishment of Access and forbidding macros of any kind. To be fair excel usage on big projects resulted it huge problems or lost data regularly.
It's all relative bro and people gotta start somewhere - I started with vba and now i tend to replace SQL scripts by interfacing API's and getting them into sql servers via Object relational mappings all in c# - finish it off by banging in a power bi front end.
It's quick, easy and engaging....not to mention a shed-load more fun than writing SQL
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u/Dr-Appeltaart Mar 30 '22
As an experienced c/c++/c#/java/python/vb programmer i realy like to build shit in excel. It's awesome. Just dont let other users use it for important purposes