Data. Your business can't run without it. As a small-business owner, you need to track everything – from your inventory levels to the personal information of employees. Many entrepreneurs start off ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

I'm working with a Mac-centric non-profit that has accumulated a list of 12k contacts in an excel spreadsheet. They would like to convert it to a database. I'm looking for suggestions to do so. The ...

Excel and Access are two software applications which belong to the Microsoft Office suite. You can create a data file in a spreadsheet format using Access and then later open the file and work on it ...

If you are part of a business, sooner or later you want to be able to collaborate on a database with a colleague or customer. In the past, the easiest way to share a small database was to create a ...

If you have lots of spreadsheets you would like to analyze, but unfortunately don’t have the time to invest in trawling through each one to any great depth, but known they contain a wealth of valuable ...

An old rule of thumb for building a startup is to find a group of professionals who use spreadsheets to do their work and then build an app to replace their spreadsheet usage. Presto, you have a ...