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		tomxor on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable sprea... Since manually scrolling through 10M rows is not likely... at that point isn't it better to just use an SQL DB rather than a spreadsheet? SQlite could be enough, and it's comparable to a spreadsheet in that it is well suited to a single-file single-user local-DB scenario, yet can still handle large quantities of data.

slotrans on Feb 17, 2023 [–]

No one loves SQL more than me but the effort jump between "paste into a spreadsheet" and "load into SQLite" is at least 100x

Computers are fast, I have gigabytes of RAM, I should be able to look at 10M rows

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