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The government doesn't use SQL (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by suy to c/programmer_humor

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See the post on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/provisionalidea.bsky.social/post/3lhujtm2qkc2i

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get what you say but excel even the 98 version can do duplicate/missing data constraints.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The big difference between the a relational database and a spreadsheet is that "can do" clause in your sentence. In a relational database they MUST have those constraints to be related.

In the Microsoft ecosystem Access is the relational database. Excel is a table manager with fancy features.