Excel Is Not a Database

Description

A four-panel animated-style meme shows a small animal sitting on a blue floating sphere in the sky and a dog flying beside it in a red toy airplane. The visible text reads "I dispense wisdom", then "What is your wisdom?", followed by the large caption "EXCEL IS NOT A DATABASE", and finally "That's a good wisdom." The joke presents a basic but hard-earned engineering truth as mystical advice: spreadsheets are useful, but they are not durable, concurrent, validated data stores. It targets the familiar enterprise failure mode where critical business processes quietly become fragile Excel-backed pseudo-systems.