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I’m sure they use CSV only.
On a serious note, what’s the most probable architecture of such database? For a beginner.
Your Social Security data is hosted on MongoDB
Elon googling ‘is postgreSQL technically sql’ frantically
They use tables in ms word
The government uses SQL for all kinds of things. What a dumb thing to say. I don’t know what they use for the treasury stuff, but my goodness.
He’s pretty loose with the ‘retard’s isn’t he?
Is it MS Access? I bet its MS Access.
Please tell me this is fake…. it’s not hard to believe that he thinks this sort of thing.
Bold words from the guy who posted the worst Elden Ring build I’ve ever seen
How does this dipshit know less than an intern?
I worked in state government and we had transitioned to SQL for all educator and student data – I think it is more probable than not that the feds use some flavor of SQL…
Elon probably getting pissed off that a bunch of the mainframe data looks corrupted to him because he’s unaware of EBCDIC encoding.
It’s not inconceivable that the US social security db predates SQL and has just never been updated.
He’s still a cunt tho.
They use IBM DB2, which is considered SQL, but has its own twist on syntax
[https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html#:~:text=In%20the%20process%20of%20modernizing,basic%20functionality%20as%20the%20Alphident](https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html#:~:text=In%20the%20process%20of%20modernizing,basic%20functionality%20as%20the%20Alphident)
If you’ve ever seen any government job listings, you should know they use only the most outdated possible tech stack. If you’re old enough, you’ve probably seen ‘green screens’ – old computers + CRT monitors that only had one color, green – in supermarkets or other businesses. DB2 is usually built to interface directly with those, and if you’ve got a DB2 database, you usually still have to have a few of those around to work with it… just to give you an idea of just how outdated it is
I work with the government. They use SQL.
I am not entirely sure he knows what SQL is. Squeal is probably the stuff babies do to him.
elmo also said they (tesla? xitter? not sure) doesn’t use CNN for AI in reply to the guy who pretty much invented CNNs
What does this Elon tweet even mean? Of course there are data duplicates there. They don’t have one database, they have many of them. Even inside one single database the data are often duplicated for various reasons. For example, to be able to properly reconstruct an invoice, you have to copy the customer data that were valid at that moment. You cannot just store the customer’s ID. To an untrained eye it may look wasteful or even plain wrong, but that is actually the correct way of doing it.
But the entire point of his tweet is probably just to fire up their voter base by screaming words like “fraud” “incompetence” and similar.
Jesus.. unless name changes trigger a new SSN, there is a reason they allowed duplicates. They create a new record when that happens, they don’t modify the original. They can’t nuke the original for that matter due to legal requirements.
Love to have a sub where Elon is being bashed by programming jokes. Keep it up guys
I used to work for the UK government. It was all Oracle, so yeah, SQL. Even ancient mainframe systems had Oracle cache front ends that were synced every night or on demand. Can’t speak for the US, but seems likely there would be some similarity. Why Oracle? They spend big on the secuirty clearance / certification stuff and schmooze government decision makers.
Plain txt file like the founding fathers intended
I guarantee you, all the databases in government/ large scale use are relational and are almost certainly db2 or Oracle. Musk has not the slightest clue what he is on about – which isn’t news – but alot of the comments in this thread may be equally concerning
The government absolutely uses SQL. Not sure about SSN specifically as that is outside my area, but the government certainly uses SQL for many things.
It’s really been the case since he bought Twitter, but anyone who thinks he’s some sort of visionary genius shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near IT.
No the government is using ms access.
EDIT: After using google like a normal guy, ms access is using sql. unlike musk I am willing to confirm I was wrong.
Elon is a moron’s idea of a smart person.
I know its for the humor. But could we not have Elon and Trump bullshit in here.
This is why I get furious when I hear that he’s “the greatest engineer”
Go read a story about Ken Thompson or any of the Bell labs guys and compare them to this poser.
I fucking guarantee they are using the most ungodly combination of isam data files and vax dibol codebase that 70s money could buy.