Alternatively...
"We need to store some data for a virus" "Where does the data come from?" "Every hospital sends us an excel sheet" "Well, let's merge all of it into a bigger sheet and display it or export it"
"We need to store some data for a virus" "Where does the data come from?" "Every hospital sends us an excel sheet" "Well, let's merge all of it into a bigger sheet and display it or export it"
... six months later ...
"Hey um..."
you have no idea how right you are :)
Wasn't a bad choice, but once you load 20TB into it, you realize you done goofed.