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The government doesn't use SQL (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by suy@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spinnaker? MongoDB? EnterpriseDB?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If Oracle works for the application and you want to save money, you’ll stick to SQL. Probably Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All of those are open source, so nothing to sell really (well, except MySQL, which is Oracle).

EnterpriseDB is the closest you can get to "selling" Postgres.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m sure EDB isn’t the only one in town selling support contracts for open source applications. It is a lucrative business.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Not the only one, but the closest one.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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.