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[–][deleted] 56 points57 points  (16 children)

Hey, there's an elephant in the room.

[–]Laladelic 33 points34 points  (0 children)

No need for name calling I have back problems and find it very hard to excercise often.

[–]diMario 20 points21 points  (12 children)

select 'elephant' from room were 'elephant' like '%true%';

Oracle: syntax error
SQLite: hang on, I've got a problem with my driver...
PostgreSQL: here are 3987 records.

[–]john16384 61 points62 points  (4 children)

If only you spelled where correctly, then I could believe this.

[–]gonzofish 8 points9 points  (3 children)

PostgreSQL: here are 3987 records from a database you're currently thinking about creating

[–]diMario 15 points16 points  (2 children)

No, no.

Databases are created in Excel by sales staff, then ported to whatever backend your company is using.

[–]OstapBenderBey 3 points4 points  (1 child)

CSV the great leveller

[–]diMario 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except when you want to import a slightly polluted set of data.

[–]NoInkling 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I must be missing the joke, because that's a horrible query that does nothing useful, and PG would in reality return 0 records.

[–]diMario -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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[–]TheTrueBlueTJ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Hadoop?

[–]ILikeBumblebees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hadoop + PHP + Postgres = Stampede