Knox County. UT Extension serves the citizens of Knox County with educational programs in the areas of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, Community Resource Development, and 4-H Youth Development.
Both Excel and Access are capable of doing a lot of things that the other can do. Both can store data. Both allow you to manipulate data. Access is primarily for lists of data, such as names and addresses, while Excel mainly deals with numbers.
Spreadsheet Databases. Spreadsheets store information using rows and columns that correspond to the records and fields used by database software such as Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server or MySQL. With a spreadsheet, however, your data is stored and accessed from your own desktop PC rather than from a remote, database server.arly users of software such as VisiCalc, MultiPlan and Lotus 123 recognized the power of spreadsheets to create business simulations, models or what if scenarios.