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Author: David Hardstaff

When do I need a database for my business?

9 April 20259 April 2025 David Hardstaff

All my data in one place This is the key one – almost all business have too many spreadsheets, many of which contain the same data repeatedly. You often can’t easily tell which one is the latest, or when one has been updated, and so on. The relevant bit of […]

 Decision-making, Microsoft Access  Leave a comment

A scoring system for the cleanliness of your data

31 May 2021 David Hardstaff

Most businesses have a database that is used to keep in touch with former customers or prospects, and it might be in a CRM system or it might be a bespoke database of some sort. But how do you know how accurate it is, and what the quality of the […]

 Data Management  Leave a comment

Dealing with “Outliers” in decision-making

31 May 202131 May 2021 David Hardstaff

I suppose it’s a bit of an unwritten rule that we shouldn’t mix business and politics in a blog like this. I’m going to break that rule now because I am going to use a political example to illustrate the key points I want to make, so I hope you […]

 Decision-making, Statistical Analysis  Leave a comment

Excel or Access – What Is The Difference?

31 May 202131 May 2021 David Hardstaff

A brief explanation of a big topic! Most people know about Excel, or certainly about spreadsheets, but databases hold a little more mystery – this may help to unravel it.

 Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server  Leave a comment
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