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hmm, ok, referring to SQL Server as "Sequel" is the one time I will let that moronic pronunciation of the acronym slide.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 15 '10, 13:55

When referring to SQL, the language specified in the SQL99 specification, the letters should be pronounced individually.

My two cents.

Responses:

Squential Querey Language? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 15, 14:44
I tried to hold onto that myself, but everyone calls it sequel. - not2fast Oct 15, 14:15
I prefer "S-Q-L", but I'll allow "sequel". -- nm - Mop (222 lbs) Oct 15, 14:07
Not that I use it a lot but I have always said it as SQL. Not heard it as Sequel -- nm - Walt_Disney Oct 15, 14:01
What about squeakquel? -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:59 2
- ... no jury would convict. We know this. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 14:09
- I would have done the fat chipette. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 14:06
always Sequel. sorry. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 13:58 3
- How does one say "PostgreSQL" then? :) -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Oct 15, 14:00 2
  - MySQL = My Sequel. MS SQL = Microsoft Sequel server. PostgreSQL = Postgress SQL -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 14:07
  - S-Q-L -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 14:07
ugh. I hate when I hear it pronounced "ess queue ell." - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:57 1
- es-car-go ;P -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:58
It's "Sequel" 24/7 at my office. No one says the letters. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 13:57 2
- A newbie just out of school would say the letters -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 15, 13:59 1
  - A person who avoids Microsoft software like the plague it is would typically use the letters. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Oct 15, 14:03
I did not do that, did I? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 13:56 2
- Fair enough, I did make an assumption. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Oct 15, 14:01
- Berry knows how you pronounce your posts, duh -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 13:59

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hmm, ok, referring to SQL Server as "Sequel" is the one time I will let that moronic pronunciation of the acronym slide.

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