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I generated an excel file from the ERP system, then using that file as input, I outputted different excel worksheets for the different crews.

As a complete aside, you might be surprised how far you can go with Excel these days. Do you know it has a built-in in-memory columnar database now? You can have millions and millions of rows of data in there that you can use in tables and charts completely independently of the size of the grid. Pull back a huge chunk of data from the DB and slice and dice it to your heart's content locally.

I look at people buying expensive "business intelligence solutions" and I think, it's right there on your PC all along and you don't even know it...



The problem is people using Excel for everything that it shouldn't be used for.


"Throwaway" Python code winds up becoming part of real systems all the time, but we don't blame Python for that




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