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Old October 19th, 2005, 05:08 PM
Tim Ferguson
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"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
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Sounds like a job for Excel to me too...


Except Excel can only go up to column IV, or 256 columns...



Hmmm... I think we are all agreed that some major design thinking is
required. Doing calculations in SQL is so horrid that my instinct is always
to take the whole lot off to something intended for the task, like SPSS or
Excel etc etc. Even if the storage method is still Jet, of course.

All the best


Tim F