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Now that you mentioned, we didn't have access to SQL Server dwh until 6 months before I left for good.

Can you try sqlite? It's usually enough for simple things I think.




But then we need something to interface with the db. Getting any programming language installed isn't going to happen in government.


Best of both worlds: libsqlite.dll is almost certainly on any corporate Windows rollout somewhere already, and you can load it into Excel as an extension for a pretty front-end that happens to have a programming language built in.


Nocodb is trying to solving the issues of implementing a spreadsheet-like frontend on top of a database backend https://www.nocodb.com/




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