How to capture small data sets in Excel – INTHEBLACK

Excel is not a database, but with recent changes, it can pretend to be a basic one. For small data sets, the solution detailed below can work well.
Let’s say you need to keep track of a few key metrics that come from different systems. These may be required as part of a reporting or dashboarding system. The metrics may be important, but are too hard or too expensive to automate. As a last resort, you decide to capture them manually.
This solution will cover creating a database that has an input…

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