Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Aug 20 17:46:56 CDT 2008
Flame bait! Flame bait! Are you looking to start a war :-) It's pronounce Squirrel http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/02/11/pronunciation_of_sql/ Personally I always spell it out - which happens to be in accordance with this point of view: Jim Melton, editor of the ISO SQL-92 standard, covered this in his book _Understanding the New SQL_ (Morgan Kaufmann): "1.2 What is SQL? SQL (correctly pronounced "ess cue ell," instead of the somewhat common "sequel"), is a data sublanguage ..." He also explains 'Structured Query Language' is archaic: "Many books and article "define" SQL by parenthetically claiming the letters stand for Structured Query Language. While this was true for the original prototypes, it is not true of the standard..." 'Structured Query Language' and 'sequel' are pre-cursors to today's SQL standard, just as SGML is a pre-cursor to XML. -- Stuart On 20 Aug 2008 at 9:03, Susan Harkins wrote: > A recruiter called me the other day and she said "sequel" server instead of > S-Q-L Server. It sounded so nice. :) Funny, she didn't sound as old as me! > ;) > > Susan H. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Stuart Mclachlan