Re: Excel vs. Access for laboratory data

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From: Brady Kelly
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:00

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On 15 Nov 1997 01:50:15 GMT, "Franz M�ller"
<franz.mueller@workmail.com> wrote:

>Hello out there !
>
>Do you know some good reasons to put (chemical) *laboratory data* in a
>relational database (Access or other, no matter) instead of Excel(-like)
>sheets (which is usualy, as I heared) ? Then please tell me them. I must
>write a programm to process this data and have to argument my choose.

It depends a lot on your data needs.  Excel (or any spreadsheet) is
very good for presenting and manipulating a fixed set of data but is
less suited to data collection or logging.  

If the data has been collected (e.g. from an experiment, or from
external sources of information) and decisions must be made based on
the data 'post-mortem' then Excel is ideal, while Access is much more
suited to an incoming stream of real-time data, of which 'pieces' or
aggregates are presented to a user for decision making.

Brady Kelly
bkelly@icon.co.za

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From: bkelly@icon.co.za (Brady Kelly)
Subject: Re: Excel vs. Access for laboratory data
Date: 1997/11/20
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