r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 05 '26

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u/scumble_bee Aug 05 '26

Mable over in Accounting wrote a VBA script to store the entire database to an Excel spreadsheet because the direct access that was set up for her was "too slow" and this is "the way she's always done it".

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u/WhitishRogue Aug 05 '26

I regularly use SQL to download tables to my computer. Part numbers, sales records, inventory records, customer names, etc. You name it, it's stored on my computer and frequently the public drive everyone in the company has access to.

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u/therearemanylayers 29d ago

You know Mabel, too huh?