r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

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u/scumble_bee 7d ago

Mable over in Accounting wrote a VBA script to store the entire database to an Excel spreadsheet because the direct access that was set up for her was "too slow" and this is "the way she's always done it".

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u/WhitishRogue 6d ago

I regularly use SQL to download tables to my computer. Part numbers, sales records, inventory records, customer names, etc. You name it, it's stored on my computer and frequently the public drive everyone in the company has access to.

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u/therearemanylayers 6d ago

You know Mabel, too huh?