• athairmor@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

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

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        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.

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          7 days ago

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

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            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.

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        10 days 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.