[dba-Tech] pronounciation

[Stuart McLachlan]

It's always S-Q-L for me.

SEQUEL was initially a lnaguage developed by Chamberlain and Boyce. 
Then IBM developed a query language for System R.

Subsequently SQL was developed as a standard.  When you pronounce it "sequel", which 
one are you talking about?  :)

Besides which,  it avoids having to say:
MySequel, Postresequel, sequelite etc.

Of course, many will disagree with me, and I don't care if they pronounce it differently to me.

I'm sure that I pronounce tomato differently to most people here :)

-- 
Stuart


On 11 Oct 2016 at 23:24, Jon Tydda wrote:

> Just because someone got it wrong once doesn't mean everyone else has
> to change pronunciation. It'll always be sequel to me :)
> 
> Or squirrel, depending on how gullible I think the person I'm talking
> to is...
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> Sent from one's iPhone
> 
> > On 11 Oct 2016, at 23:10, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I occasionally slip up and say Sequel and the young heads all go ...
> > "huh??" 
> > 
> > Susan H. 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
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