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When a spreadsheet stops being the right tool: spreadsheet vs database
A plain-English sorting guide for the spreadsheet vs database question in a small business: what spreadsheets are genuinely good at, the specific symptoms of having outgrown one, what a database and a small internal tool change, and how a switch usually goes.
Thomas Darby · Aug 25, 2026 · 6 min read
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