Them: Why not use Google Sheets or MS Excel as a Database?

Me: You are right. Go ahead and use it. Have a nice day.

@nixCraft PM: can you make an excel file with just the hits on allowed traffic through the firewall ?
me: <insert cat grep sed magic here> <wait 5 minutes for the pipeline to execute> there are 8 millions records and they are all deduplicated. Excel is not going to work here.