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Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by TallGuyShort »

shrikant wrote: post #52

"Sequel" only when talking about MS SQL Server. Ess-Queue-Ell all other times.

I'm exactly the same. I try to make a point of saying "Ess-Queue-Ell" because I consider it more correct, and less ambiguous (not just because of the previous query language, but because 'sequel' is a word in common usage, and 'SQL' is not). However, I think I see saying "Sequel Server" as a brand. If I saw "SQL Server" outside of a Microsoft context, my first though would probably be that of a generic client-server RDBMS.

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by Todd »

Legion wrote: post #90

S-Q-L without question. * It works in all contexts ("sequel" gets clunky with names like PostgreSQL) * It's not some aircraft company's trademark * MySQL officially states their product's name is My S-Q-L (though they don't mind MySequel, but it's not the real name) * Unlike "ARP" or "BIOS", "SQL" doesn't map to just one pronunciation. "Squeal", "Squirrel", and others are just as "valid" as "Sequel". Frankly, if I ha…

Funny but I once met an isolated developer who lived away from any other technologists. He pronounced it squeal. It was hard not to laugh but I couldn't correct him because he was giving us a presentation. The best I could do was offer the sequel alternative in our dialog.

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by beaumartinez »

eof wrote: post #94
city41 wrote: post #76

Pronunciation discrepancies are common in this field. How do you pronounce "char"? Or "cout" and "cin"? C++ was the first language I learned and I did so entirely through books, so I came up with my own pronunciations for everything. It wasn't until years later that I went to college and for the first time heard other people saying these terms orally. It was quite a shock to hear my professor say "char" (as in "charc…

care, c-out, c-in It took me years to switch from 'jif' for 'gif' with a hard G. I finally gave up because it seemed like I was the only one.

care, cout, sin, jif/gif. I go for what's laziest, because it's human nature.

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by AmberShah »

Legion wrote: post #90

S-Q-L without question. * It works in all contexts ("sequel" gets clunky with names like PostgreSQL) * It's not some aircraft company's trademark * MySQL officially states their product's name is My S-Q-L (though they don't mind MySequel, but it's not the real name) * Unlike "ARP" or "BIOS", "SQL" doesn't map to just one pronunciation. "Squeal", "Squirrel", and others are just as "valid" as "Sequel". Frankly, if I ha…

To be fair, PostgreSQL is clunky no matter what.

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by jdlegg »

Legion wrote: post #90

S-Q-L without question. * It works in all contexts ("sequel" gets clunky with names like PostgreSQL) * It's not some aircraft company's trademark * MySQL officially states their product's name is My S-Q-L (though they don't mind MySequel, but it's not the real name) * Unlike "ARP" or "BIOS", "SQL" doesn't map to just one pronunciation. "Squeal", "Squirrel", and others are just as "valid" as "Sequel". Frankly, if I ha…

I think S-Q-L gets clunky with names like Microsoft SQL Server.

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by chrisolsen »

lusis wrote: post #39
sabat wrote: post #23

Like Leenoox vs. Lih-nux vs. Lie-nux, or v-i vs. "vigh" (rhymes with "high"), it's just preference. There is no clearly "correct" pronunciation. However, the first "a" in Nevada is like the "a" in "cab". That's not negotiable. ;-)

Ummm. There absolutly is a correct pronunciation for Linux. Any person who's been involved with it for more than 10 years will remember the AIFF file floating around: "My name is Leenus Torvalds and I pronounce Leenux, Leenux" And while there's some slack on how to pronounce SQL (because of the origins (QUEL from Stonebraker and then the whole SEQUEL/SQL issue), it's understandable and acceptable that people could pr…

According to Linus it is pronounced lihnux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0

Re: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

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Post by DougBTX »

city41 wrote: post #76

Pronunciation discrepancies are common in this field. How do you pronounce "char"? Or "cout" and "cin"? C++ was the first language I learned and I did so entirely through books, so I came up with my own pronunciations for everything. It wasn't until years later that I went to college and for the first time heard other people saying these terms orally. It was quite a shock to hear my professor say "char" (as in "charc…

Same here, I still get surprised when someone says char(coal), I always read it as char(acter)... I'd go with c-out and c-in however.
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