Octalsoft database consultant group has expertise team in Convert Excel to Relational Database, Convert MS Excel to SQL server, Sharing Excel Spreadsheet Data, Maintaining data in Excel. Our teams of professional database integration have the opportunity to address diverse industry business needs. Our track record speaks volumes of our credibility, delivery and performance.

Advantages maintaining database in Excel

Excel is great tools for database management. The major advantage of using Excel is, Excel Spreadsheets are flexible, inexpensive and easy to use. They are especially handy when it comes to beating report submission deadlines or making impromptu data computations. That’s why office workers, managers and even executives have made spreadsheets their go-to solution for such undertakings and more.

Excel does not require any additional software to be installed in your computer, your computer is likely already equipped with Microsoft Office and can immediately start your programming process.

Excel is easy to use, user friendly, and most people can get in and review the spreadsheet and make simple changes, in the absence of excel consultant. In case, when the records of your company grows huge, in such situation the excel applications can be easily upgraded into access, oracle or SQL server.

Database stored in excel can easily be integrated into pivot tables, by just connecting it directly to OLAP database.

Disadvantages maintaining database in Excel

The disadvantages are not so serious that you cannot work around them, and can be minimized. Many Organizations heavy reliance on spreadsheets have made these User Developed Applications (UDA) into high-risk office tools. Simple spreadsheet errors like leaving out a negative sign or a cut-and-paste mistake have already caused million-dollar discrepancies.

In case when the file containing the database becomes very large, then there is a chance your program will run very slow. This is the reason that the excel experts make the program compact or store each applications in different files, the smaller the files the faster the execution.

Many times by dividing the database into several files there is a high chance that the excel files might get lost in the hard drive. Excel worksheet has a limited number of rows; this is the reason that the organization converts the database into access when the database crosses the limit of 65,000 lines.

Leading Consulting Services

With offices in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland, Octalsoft Database Consulting team has handled complex IT projects including installation, configuration, design, and architecture of large databases technology upgrades, and global offshore development projects.  Our skilled MS Excle Consulting team has convert database from MS Excel into Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and MYSQL. Octalsoft Database consulting services include:

Convert Excel to Relational Database

Sharing Excel Spreadsheet Data

Convert MS Excel to SQL server

Maintaining data in Excel