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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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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Either a DELETE FROM or a DROP DATABASE if I had to guess

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

An UPDATE without a WHERE clause that doesn't get noticed for a week or two. Your data's hosed and you can't really cope with reverting to your last known good backup. Bonus points if you haven't tested your recovery procedures recently. Then he runs around screeching about how the data is obviously fraudulent and he's a genius for finding it.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

Little Johnny Tables, the hero we didn't expect.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh I just curled up into a fetal ball at the thought of that...