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How to pronounce SQL
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:01 pm
by Luke
My boss pronounces it "Sequel". I've always just said S-Q-L. I'm just wondering how it's "supposed" to be pronounced.
Same thing with mySQL... boss says "My-Sequel" and I say "My S-Q-L". Who's right?
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:29 pm
by tbrown1
Same here I have always said myS-Q-L but have heard plenty of people say My-Sequel and always wondered whats proper
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:52 pm
by Weirdan
from
http://www.provue.com/proVUE/Fact_SQLServer.html:
The history of SQL and relational databases traces back to E.F. Codd, an IBM researcher who first published an article on the relational database idea in June 1970. Codd's article started a flurry of research, including a major project at IBM. Part of this project was a database query language named SEQUEL, an acronym for Structured English Query Language. The name was later changed to SQL for legal reasons, but many people still pronounce it SEQUEL to this day.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:12 pm
by John Cartwright
We've had this discussion before.. not again

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:26 pm
by Luke
I wasn't around for it I guess.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:27 pm
by Weirdan
We've had this discussion before.. not again
Oh, really? It doesn't show up in top ten when googling for 'pronounce sql'

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:56 pm
by onion2k
Oddly I say 'sequel' for the language, yet I call MySQL 'My S Q L'.
Crazy in the coconut I suppose.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:58 pm
by Luke
My S Q L sounds right to me... but I've gotten used to calling it sequel cuz that's what it is referred to by everybody else here.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:17 pm
by Christopher
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:My S Q L sounds right to me... but I've gotten used to calling it sequel cuz that's what it is referred to by everybody else here.
Well, you should be used to that given that your name is spelled "The Ninja Space Goat" but pronounced "Smith".
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:18 pm
by John Cartwright
arborint wrote:The Ninja Space Goat wrote:My S Q L sounds right to me... but I've gotten used to calling it sequel cuz that's what it is referred to by everybody else here.
Well, you should be used to that given that your name is spelled "The Ninja Space Goat" but pronounced "Smith".
I pronounce it Smath, but thats a whole new discussion on it's own, now isn't it.

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:22 pm
by Luke
arborint wrote:Well, you should be used to that given that your name is spelled "The Ninja Space Goat" but pronounced "Smith".

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:34 pm
by Christopher
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:
Mine's pronounced "Smyth" but can be spelled either "Luxury-Yacht" or "Throatwarbler-Mangrove".
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:36 pm
by timvw
I always pronounce it as S-Q-L.. unless i'm talking about a microsoft sequel server... (As long as people know what you're talking about i don't care about pronounciation...)
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:09 pm
by Burrito
Jcart wrote:We've had this discussion before.. not again

viewtopic.php?t=42615
it was spawned from our gif / jif discussion.
according to the quote I posted in there from the 'my es que el' manual, it should be pronounced just like that.
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:08 am
by aaronhall
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:My S Q L sounds right to me... but I've gotten used to calling it sequel cuz that's what it is referred to by everybody else here.
Everyone I've heard here pronounces it either MySQL or mysql. Some of the noobz pronounce it Mysql. heh, losers.