I've only ever heard it called "sequel" in my work dealings with developers and whatnot so that's what I've always called it too.
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How do you pronounce SQL
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I say 'sequel', like everyone else who actually uses SQL
To me, saying "Ess Q El" would be like pronouncing gif as "Gee Eye Eff"
To me, saying "Ess Q El" would be like pronouncing gif as "Gee Eye Eff"
All the old school DBAs I worked with have always said sequel
So I follow convention and do the same.
So I follow convention and do the same.
I said "sequel" for a while until someone senior to me corrected me. "Some people say 'sequel'', but you'll sound a bit stupid." It would feel weird to deviate from pronouncing the letters at this point. Now I'm doubting everything.
I say S-Q-L when mentioning the name of the language. But in a sentence I would often say sequel. "Sequel server".
Is that weird
Is that weird
I hope you didn't have to trouble shoot that at some point lol
Every fucking time, he had several operations and the automated queries he'd set up always failed randomly. Most people also tried the hardest to us MSAccess and combo of pass through T-SQL and Jet SQL and they would create a query which linked to another query, so many union queries and queries post that. They always failed, my boss was like but you're the best at SQL why can't you fix it... there are fucking a 100 queries with shit labelling.
Yeah if you actual have real SQL training you would know it's "sequel" because that's what Microsoft calls it
as someone who spent years as a programmer for database applications the correct term is sequel.
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It really seems to be a US/Europe kinda thing, I had never heard sequel in Europe, and in the US I never hear SQL...
Thank you. We're done here.
NASA can be spoken as a 'word' and is thus an acronym. The same is true of OPEC and VISA.
BBC cannot be spoken as a 'word' and must be spelt out and is thus an abbreviation. The same is true of HDD and SQL.
Been a system engineer/admin for 11 years now. It's always been Sequel. It is pronounced that way in VMware and Citrix classes as well.
I say it both ways but each use depends on the audience.
Coworker = Sequel
Family member or other person unfamiliar with it that I'm explaining my job to: S Q L
Coworker = Sequel
Family member or other person unfamiliar with it that I'm explaining my job to: S Q L
Developer here with 20 years of experience.
MSSQL or SQL Server -> Sequel
MySQL -> S. Q. L.
I honestly don't care how people pronounce it, but I do notice younger devs tend to say S. Q. L. For everything.
Also, had a junior dev try and correct me on my pronunciation of sequel. He didn't last long.
Edit: to clarify, I didn't fire him. He was very stubborn and always thought he was right. He eventually got fed up and left on his own.
MSSQL or SQL Server -> Sequel
MySQL -> S. Q. L.
I honestly don't care how people pronounce it, but I do notice younger devs tend to say S. Q. L. For everything.
Also, had a junior dev try and correct me on my pronunciation of sequel. He didn't last long.
Edit: to clarify, I didn't fire him. He was very stubborn and always thought he was right. He eventually got fed up and left on his own.
I don't like saying acronyms that don't actually make a word, so S-Q-L for me.
Related, the Qt framework I call Q-T despite the developers saying it's pronounced "cute".
(And also I play with my N-E-S, not my Ness or Sness...)
Related, the Qt framework I call Q-T despite the developers saying it's pronounced "cute".
(And also I play with my N-E-S, not my Ness or Sness...)
Sequel, but I don't really care, and I don't get the feeling that many do. It's not like GIF where people will defend it to the death. Nor like NES / SNES, where people saying it the wrong way physically hurts me.
