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Brit uni blabs students' confidential information to 298 undergrads

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why is this sensitive information kept in a apparently locally stored spreadsheet

why is this sensitive information kept in a spreadsheet

TFTFY

Store data in a SECURE database, create a ODBC/JDBC link to the database, use that in Excel .... don't have link to the database ? Cannot read data .... still locally stored excel file everyone is used to ...

YET, why Excel ? Are they adding ailments, dividing by age, multiplying by date of birth or do they need pivot tables on this data ? Thought not ...

Stop using Excel for stuff it was not designed for.

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