A database is a number of different pieces of paper of varying sizes. No matter what you do, you can't get it all down onto a single sheet of any size.
(Not strictly true, but we should keep the horror of the single table database well out of the picture).
Or:
To change something in a spreadsheet, you need to change a lot of things- like altering the date on a large number of newsletters by hand. To change something on a database, you only have to change the sign on the noticeboard- everyone who needs the information will come and look at it.
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Date: 2008-12-30 12:04 pm (UTC)A spreadsheet is one big piece of paper.
A database is a number of different pieces of paper of varying sizes. No matter what you do, you can't get it all down onto a single sheet of any size.
(Not strictly true, but we should keep the horror of the single table database well out of the picture).
Or:
To change something in a spreadsheet, you need to change a lot of things- like altering the date on a large number of newsletters by hand. To change something on a database, you only have to change the sign on the noticeboard- everyone who needs the information will come and look at it.