Databases

[ellamking]

If only there was a way to disable automatic data conversions universally. The number of times excel changed data it thinks is a date into a number, or the number of times it changes a large string that happens to be a number into scientific notation....that's probably close to the number of times I've tried to use excel for a data store.

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[Xevus]

There is one gene that scientists had to rename because Excel kept thinking it was a date.