[dba-Tech] pronounciation

[Arthur Fuller]

We have a colloquiy, it would appear. To sketch it out a little further:

ISO is pronounced exactly as it looks: I-S-O.
bat is pronounced exactly as it looks: BAT.
DLL is pronounced in the same way as ISO.
SQL is a tad trickier, since most of the commercial world takes after the
original IBM pronunciation, derived from Sequel, or Structured Query
Language. But Monty (of MySQL fame) decided to change the pronunciation to
My-SQL, and this pronunciation has acquired significant credence in the
world, especially the internet world.
In contrast to Monty's pronunciation, Michael Stonebraker et. al. have come
up with PostGres and subsequently PostGreSQL; these distinctions reflect
the evolution of the SQL language and I admire them. Stonebraker et. al.
have advanced the SQL language significantly, in my opinion. Stonebraker
and his team have gone way beyond that standard implementation into VoltDB,
an in-memory database that can scale across numerous servers with tons of
RAM and treat the whole surface as one single block of RAM.
Now we come to the NoSQL community, a whole new take on what used to be
called Codd's Relational Model.

I'll leave it at that, for this send.

Arthur

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Bobby Heid <bheid at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Same
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 7:02 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] pronounciation
>
> I'l go along with that.
>
> On 10 Oct 2016 at 9:27, Jeff Barrows wrote:
>
> > In my experience, it has always been said as a word, pronounced as
> > eye-so.
> >
> >
> > On 10/10/16, 9:22 AM, "dba-Tech on behalf of Gustav Brock"
> > <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of gustav at cactus.dk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Susan
> >
> >     Iso can be regarded as a small word like bat and exe and doc. Here
> >     we pronounce the I as in International.
> >
> >     It'a bit more difficult with xls and indeed xlsx, while img
> >     luckily don't have to be spelled out like you do for omg.
> >
> >     /gustav
> >
> >     -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> >     Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På
> >     vegne af Susan Harkins Sendt: 10. oktober 2016 15:48 Til:
> >     'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> >     <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Emne: [dba-Tech] pronounciation
> >
> >     How do you pronounce .iso? Do you use the letters or a word - I
> >     know I say image for an .img file, not i-m-g.
> >
> >      Susan H.
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Arthur