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The projects I worked on always had a mechanism to dump data into a proper database. For example, I built a daily scraper to collect some of the inventory. I didn’t keep all the data in a single sheet. Instead, all the data was stored in a cloud-based managed SQLite or PostgreSQL database, or sometimes a local SQLite database. Only the day's data was stored in Google Sheets because the client wanted to see the spreadsheet themselves and have the UI be accessible for their users.


It feels a little misleading to say you're using Google Sheets as the backend database, when you need an actual database in conjunction with it.


Extremely misleading, in this case Google Sheets it's working more like a frontend




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