Re: [PHP-DB] Pros/Cons Database vs Excel

2003-07-23 Thread David Smith
Not to long ago I was in a very similar situation. I walked into a new job where they were using Lotus Notes to take care of all of there phone lists (telemarkers) and were using this dbase file to weed out all of the do not call lists for particular states. Well, I was looking at the data and the

[PHP-DB] Pros/Cons Database vs Excel

2003-07-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I'm having a problem convincing my boss of the benefits of using a database vs just using excel as a way of tracking events. The boss' stance is that excel is more 'simple' columns can be expanded as and when it's wanted. You can put links into excel that points to files resid