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Olympics Job For Excel User

Check it out: Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel.

The London 2012 Olympics is set be a humanoid spectacle of the like never witnessed by the world's population before. Or something. But disturbing information has reached us at Vulture Central that reveals the organisation's entire cultural events database is stored in *gasp* Excel.

A job vacancy currently advertised on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) website is offering a competitive salary to someone who can maintain and report on data held in Microsoft's spreadsheet software.

But surely the database contains hundreds if not thousands of entries - how can LOCOG possibly expect little old Excel to cope?

I think Excel can handle it. But I won't be applying for the job.

Here's the job description.

(via Smurf on Spreadsheets)

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1. By Bruce Benton. Comment posted 20 May, 2012 6:40pm

   I frequently accumulate 5 million and more cells of data that I store in Access ... plus an additional 30 or so queries ... it does begin to get slow at this level. This is on a 64 bit machine w/ 99 gigs ram ... dual quad chips 3 mh.
   
   Data Exporting is really slow, thus I find that copy and paste the queries into Excel works pretty well.
   
   Getting the data into Access is done by import command from various sources
   
   My business is managing environmental emission data for individual oil & chemical companies.
   
   Bruce Benton