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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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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 155 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who has literally helped the government use SQL for over a decade, this is huge news.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week 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 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spinnaker? MongoDB? EnterpriseDB?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

Not the only one, but the closest one.

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

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

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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.