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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[–] Im_old 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also that's not how deduplication works.

He means/thinks that SSN is not unique (which is not a problem, just different design).

Of course he's wrong about lots of stuff, just the nerd in me could not not explain it.

[–] dohpaz42 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I imagine he’s looking at a payments table where there is a non-unique key to relate a citizen to each payment.

[–] Im_old 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was thinking something similar. I'm not a DBA but it's the easiest way (that I can think of) to record all transactions for a certain user.