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Re:Select * from cloud by TremendousJudge on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:40PM (#33037137)
>It quickly killed every previous architecture

This feat was much easier to achieve when the industry was much, much smaller, and a single company mostly owned the entire business sector (who were the people that needed databases in the first place).

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Re:Select * from cloud by marcosdumay on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:40PM (#33038872)
Well, a single company with a huge unexplainable help from the US government.

But SQL stayed unopposed due to its qualities, not because of its iffy start.

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