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When Spreadsheets End

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Datasets can grow too large or fine-grained for spreadsheet tools — the scale where purpose-built storage and analysis systems take over from the grid.

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A fitness tracker logging heart rate every second produces a year of readings no grid holds well.

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Losing rows at a tool's limit is a documented, real failure mode.

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