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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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171 points vercantez | 2 comments | 08 Jul 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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98codes ◴[10 Jul 25 17:52 UTC] No.44523639[source]▶
Interesting to see SQL Server not listed here, am curious whether it didn't have enough signal, or suffered from being a two-word product, with "SQL" being far too generic on its own.
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1. RadiozRadioz ◴[10 Jul 25 18:06 UTC] No.44523805[source]▶
It is also less mentioned on the site in general, owing to it being a proprietary Microsoft product in an audience of people who primarily go for Free / Open Source non-Microsoft products.

There are some people here who are interested in corporate Europe or <insert Microsoft foothold place/industry here>, but most are aligned with Silicon Valley hackers.

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2. pythonaut_16 ◴[10 Jul 25 23:25 UTC] No.44526833[source]▶
Someone else mentioned it already, but what is there to talk about with SQL Server (and Oracle)? Like I'm sure there's plenty someone could write about but generally it's pay Microsoft so it's their problem.

Whereas something like Postgres has a plethora of forks and tools built around it, because it's open source devs can actually do interesting things to solve their problems.