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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:50:25 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:50:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cbac8ea9f1ed3cc8068a7bfc433f2536"; logging-data="3056986"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DJix+6w2ZWjetedkDn5kf" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DIe9hzxTbCrdlq9kzz2TGryM7gk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 1/1/2025 2:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:45:04 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote: >>> >>>> I'd bet a decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny >>>> footprint and be reliable. >>> >>> Even Microsoft realizes that now. >> >> I presume you're referring to excel now including a python interpreter. >> I don't think it's much of an improvement. > > Obviously Microsoft is expecting its users to think otherwise. And it > wants to charge them for the privilege, so it must be expecting them to > believe it’s an improvement worth paying extra money for. > > So either Python is that much better than VBA, or VBA is that much worse > than Python. Take your pick. ;) I figured you were lying about MS (your mouth was moving). Python in Excel costs NOTHING. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/python-in-excel#pricing-plans