4 ms·He uses SQL Server, of course. The root cause is that Joel used to work for Microsoft. Awesome.by mattmcknight 17y agoHe uses SQL Server, of course. The root cause is that Joel used to work for Microsoft. Awesome.dmpayton 17y agoNot just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).smokinn 17y agoAnd he spent a good chunk of his career as an evangelist for a Microsoft shop. (Not Microsoft itself but a "Microsoft partner")