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Our company has user data (name, email, phone number, systems of access, AD username) in a large Excel workbook. The Excel workbook is becoming very slow because of the 1000s of entries in it, and we're looking for an alternative solution.

I was think Microsoft Access because of the ease of use and ability to quickly make forms and reports, but my boss is worried about Access becoming end of lifed soon. Anyone have another solution for this? I know a little SQL, so that's an option, but not a preferred option.

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SQL Server express is a good choice. You can also create a very low cost (a few bucks a month) database only on Azure. In that scenario there would be no maintenance. I would argue SQL is what you are dealing with when working on data and Excel can easily connect to a table. This may be your best solution.