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Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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How To Rebuild Database on PS5

Knowing how to use the Rebuild Database function on PS5 can help users get out of some especially sticky situations. However, due to it only being necessary for emergencies and through the system’s ...
Ars Technica

MS researchers claim to crack encrypted database with old simple trick

A team of Microsoft researchers led by Seny Kamara claims to have been successful at recovering a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that ...