I’m a tech interested guy. I’ve touched SQL once or twice, but wasn’t able to really make sense of it. That combined with not having a practical use leaves SQL as largely a black box in my mind (though I am somewhat familiar with technical concepts in databasing).

With that, I keep seeing [pic related] as proof that Elon Musk doesn’t understand SQL.

Can someone give me a technical explanation for how one would come to that conclusion? I’d love if you could pass technical documentation for that.

  • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Because a simple query would have shown that SSN was a compound key with another column (birth date, I think), and not the identifier he thinks it is.

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      4 months ago

      Why would one person, one SSN ever have two different birth dates? That sounds like an issue all onto itself.