I use S Q L except when talking to a Microsoft devotee, they seem to use sequel mostly.
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#12Technically, your supposed to spell it out, but unless I'm talking about PostgreSQL (which doesn't work unless you spell it out) I say 'sequel' because I like it better.
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#13I use sequel more and more now (probably reaching 100%) because I deal constantly with executives and non-IT personnel and they all use "sequel".
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#14You just made me realize I use both. Now I just have to figure out if there is a pattern to when I use each and if I am imparting any meaning with my choice.
It's quite a little linguistics problem.
I think I tend to say "sequel", especially when discussing "SQL Server" or "MySQL", because "Ess Cue Ell Server" or "My Ess Cue Ell" is a lot slower to say than "Sequel Server" or "My Sequel".
But then I go to discuss PostgreSQL and I'm pretty much stuck saying "Post Gres Cue Ell" because, seriously, how else should I say that? "Postgres Sequel"? "Postgree Sequel"?
The alternative is to fall back to calling it "Postgres". And sometimes I do that, because PostgreSQL is torture to pronounce no matter how you try to do it.
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#15seek well?
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#16Sequel in casual conversation, S-Q-L in interviews.
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#17Never met anyone in real life that says sequel, well, except when referring to Microsoft products - perhaps a US thing?
Another weird one I noticed is some people pronounce GIF as jiff, rather than giff.
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#18I used to say S-Q-L in France but when I arrived in SF everybody was talking about "sequel" ... it took me some time to figure out what this damn sequel was.
Now I use sequel in english and S-Q-L in french. I was thinking it was the english way to say it.
This poll proves me it's wrong :-)
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#19I say "sequel" ("s-q-l" hardly rolls off the tongue) but often in my group we call it "skewl", because in addition to shaving off half the syllables of "sequel", it sounds fittingly sorta gross.
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#20Used to think that "sequel" was just an arbitrary way to "pronounceable-ize" SQL. So a friend and I retaliated by saying things like "MySquirrel".