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Try getting your average office worker to deal with an SQL database directly. No chance unless it only has a single table. A database without an interface tailored for a specific purpose is useless for office staff. I know this from experience having once tried to get office staff using pgAdmin to update the shiny new database I had designed for them.

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What's funny is that this is what SQL was originally designed for. That's why it reads so much like English. Of course, CLIs were too.