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I Defy Them to Name Any Relational Databases :) (Score:2)
A couple of years ago, I heard someone talk about the possibility of eliminating "perlmod" as an obsolete technology. Fortunately, he could be assured that there was no "perlmod" deployed in his organization, so his objective was achieved.
Similarly, very, very few people use relational databases. Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL are all examples of databases which people call relational, but are not. Just today I wrote an SQL query which, as is so common, returned many duplicate results, something which does