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 ...

So much time is lost when you’re constantly moving between spreadsheets and databases. When you must use one app to organize information and another to analyze it, things can get clunky and overly ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...

D is for Database, debug, DNS... In fact, I am a bit short of Ds. Anyway, my choice has to be database. What is a database? This may seem like an odd question, but it is surprising how many people ...

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 ...

Spreadsheets are great tools. Spreadsheet programs have been around for over 25 years and many contractors have built some pretty respectable spreadsheets over the years for their estimating.