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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Ok genuine question, what is the difference between a SQL database and a simple Excel spreadsheet?
Basically the difference is with a SQL database you have way more options for how to create, manage & interact with the data.
Spreadsheets are great for sharing snapshots of data, and there's a level of automation you can build into them, but the scale of what you can do goes up dramatically when your data is in a proper database instead of just an excel file.