{"id":192,"date":"2011-06-03T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/excel-at-the-london-2012-olympics\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:33:37","slug":"excel-at-the-london-2012-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/excel-at-the-london-2012-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel at the London 2012 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"91\" height=\"115\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> Yes, an Excel spreadsheet can do all kinds of magical things, and you can push it well beyond its expected limits. But, you also have to know when to quit pushing.<\/p>\n<p>In an article in today\u2019s Register, the author, Kelly Fiveash, has uncovered a <a title=\"job advertisement\" href=\"https:\/\/locogrecruitment.london2012.com\/jobs\/main?cmd=reqDisplayJobDetails&amp;jobId=2270\">job advertisement<\/a> for someone to manage the London 2012 Olympics \u201cCultural Olympiad\u201d events. And the database they\u2019re using is Excel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The majority of the Team &amp; Database Administrators work will be to work with the Senior Operations Manager, and Business Manager, in management of the central cultural events database (held in excel).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That can\u2019t be good! You can read Kelly\u2019s article here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/06\/03\/london_2012_olympics_cultural_events_excel\/\">Entire London 2012 Olympics&#8217; cultural events database held on Excel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, an Excel spreadsheet can do all kinds of magical things, and you can push it well beyond its expected limits. But, you also have to know when to quit pushing. In an article&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day","category-spreadsheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}