[dba-Tech] pronounciation

[Stuart McLachlan]

Microsoft have done a lot things wrong over the years :)

The official standard, ISO /IEC  9075-1, consistently uses "an, not "a" as the indefinite article 
before "SQL".   If it were pronounces "sequel", the indefinte article used would have been "a" 

e.g.

"1.  This part of ISO/IEC 9075 describes the conceptual framework used in other parts of 
ISO/IEC 9075 to specify the grammar of SQL and the result of processing statements in that 
language by an SQL-implementation."

Which goes right back to "a .iso image" or "an .iso image"

-- 
Stuart


On 11 Oct 2016 at 19:30, Susan Harkins wrote:

> Microsoft original pronounced SQL Server, Sequel Server. 
> 
> Susan H. 
> 
> 
> 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.