The government doesn't use SQL
The government doesn't use SQL


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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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As someone who has literally helped the government use SQL for over a decade, this is huge news.
156 0 ReplyElon and DOGE should really look into all of those Oracle contracts the Fed pays for. Must be all inefficiency and fraud.
57 0 ReplyPlease do. Most of my sales these days are people dropping Oracle due to cost.
38 0 ReplyIt 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.
18 0 ReplySpinnaker? MongoDB? EnterpriseDB?
4 0 ReplyIf Oracle works for the application and you want to save money, you’ll stick to SQL. Probably Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB.
2 0 ReplyAll 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.
1 0 ReplyI’m sure EDB isn’t the only one in town selling support contracts for open source applications. It is a lucrative business.
1 0 ReplyNot the only one, but the closest one.
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At least they aren't using Access????
5 0 ReplyAccess 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.
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