One problem that often faces businesses is that they start off with just the most basic thing then when the time comes to upgrade it is a very hard step to change over to the newer system. With that in mind, if I ever felt that something had the potential to grow beyond the basics of a spreadsheet I would do my best to just start it off in a database. That would save a lot of effort if you ever did have to convert it from a spreadsheet to a database.
There are two ways to do everything and to play devil’s advocate, by starting off with a basic spreadsheet the startup cost would be far less and the ability to upgrade to a database is always an option in the future when it is really necessary. In this way, you would never have more than you needed and your information would grow in proportion to your need to upgrade your database.
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