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Have you looked at the query function in Google Sheets? I've found it to be easier to use in many cases and more intuitive than vlookup since it brings SQL SELECT-type of functionality against spreadsheets. Note that this supports queries against other sheets, not databases (e.g. ODBC)
The one drawback I've seen is that for large spreadsheets vlookup performance seems to be much faster.
I rarely use Excel, but it may have a similar function as well.
Thanks Jim, that's a good point to bring up. There are plenty of features that (in my opinion) are underutilised. QUERY is one of them, using Gscripts is another.
As with anything in the data world it's up to the analyst which set of tools to use. There needs to be more education around the tradeoffs between them.
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Thanks for a great article @helenanders26 .
Have you looked at the
queryfunction in Google Sheets? I've found it to be easier to use in many cases and more intuitive thanvlookupsince it brings SQL SELECT-type of functionality against spreadsheets. Note that this supports queries against other sheets, not databases (e.g. ODBC)The one drawback I've seen is that for large spreadsheets
vlookupperformance seems to be much faster.I rarely use Excel, but it may have a similar function as well.
Thanks Jim, that's a good point to bring up. There are plenty of features that (in my opinion) are underutilised. QUERY is one of them, using Gscripts is another.
As with anything in the data world it's up to the analyst which set of tools to use. There needs to be more education around the tradeoffs between them.