![A social media post by Santa Claus @Santaclaus@c.im. It says: A valiant effort has been made by Little Tim this year, who for some reason has decided to change his name to Tim); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];- HO HO HO! Nice try Tim. I don't use #SQL, I use several dozen interconnected #Excel spreadsheets, like a professional.](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/99f69aed-4aaf-473c-ad24-2523041b7bd5.png)
It's a lot of individual tables because Santa's excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It's not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.
There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it's not religion or poverty, it's because Santa's files got corrupted.