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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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[–] athairmor 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elon and DOGE should really look into all of those Oracle contracts the Fed pays for. Must be all inefficiency and fraud.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Please do. Most of my sales these days are people dropping Oracle due to cost.

[–] athairmor 16 points 1 day ago

It would be one of the areas that would save the government a bunch of money. But, Ellison is in the Trump camp so it’s not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Spinnaker? MongoDB? EnterpriseDB?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least they aren't using Access????

[–] athairmor 8 points 1 day ago

Access can do (some) SQL! 😱

I’ve worked for US federal government, access to Access* was the only way I could do some things that wasn’t torture… severe torture.

*keep in mind that SQL is a query language. It can be implemented in different ways and not necessarily within an RDMS.