> I love Excel and wish more people would actually spend the time to learn the nuts and bolts behind it. Most people think of it as a band-aid solution used by people who don't know databases

Excel is a powerful tool and it is super useful when you use it within its domain.

At the same time it is used as a band-aid solution by those who don't know how to use a database. I recently had a fellow employee come and ask me if I knew how to expand excel beyond the 70,000 row limit. After asking him a few questions I came to the conclusion that his issue was not that excel doesn't support more than 70,000 rows but he needed a database and wasn't using one.