re: What are some hard skills younwish you had learned for your career?

I’ve been going back and forth between deciding if I should stick with Excel, which I’m very familiar with, or to learn to use Access, and SQL.

My current set up has a “front end” sheet the user uses, and a “backend” that serves as a data base.

While Access may be better, I guess I failed to see how it could be that much better than Excel to justify the learning curve.

(Data sets are basically a list of analytical results of a sample).

Breaking out that kind of data through different granularities can easily be done with pivot tables.

Unless the big difference is that Access is much faster at sorting large quantities of data compared to Excel.