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I once worked at a company, that bought a lot of unnecessary software, because they knew they need a database, but didn't knew what a database actually is.

Did they buy a mauve colored database? I hear mauve has the most RAM.

Edit: it's a Dilbert reference. PHB thinks he needs a SQL DB and Dilbert asks what color he wants.

I recently helped a company migrate off a SQL-92 DBISAM database they used to serve customers like Google and Microsoft for over 20 years…

They set it up so you can't afford to run it on any other cloud

I mean if the joke that Google is just an Ads company with a software engineering org is true, then Oracle is just a Sales company with a software engineering org.

Data gravity is helluva force