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Yes, but it was a request of my boss
Tell them to use a proper database
Their boss probably doesn’t care since it opened in excel for them.
Good luck with that.
Call him special for even entertaining a 1.5GB XLS file as a real option for anything.
That’s totally nuts. Normalize the data and use Access if you have absolutely no other options - or use SQL Server Express if you want to be cheap about it and stay in the MSFT ecosystem.
Microsoft never really meant for XLS files to get that big. Can't you use a "saner" approach, like CSV?