Monday, January 26, 2009

Pivot

Pivot tables invoke a lot of frustration for me. Call it ignorance, but I think they are ridiculous. Why would you create a pivot table using information pulled from a database? Why not just create a better query in your database to give you the report you want?

Oddly enough, pivot tables also remind me of one particular Friends episode where Ross ends up screaming "Pi-vot!" as they are trying to move a couch (somewhere) and are having great difficultly turning the various corners they encounter. This makes me smile in the midst of my frustrations.


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