An Empassioned and Meaningless Debate
Posted by David Aldridge on 2008-04-25
“See-qwel” or “S-Q-L”? Have your say on this highly important matter here, and help shape the future of our industry.
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Tim Hall said
The children! Won’t somebody think of the children!?
EJ said
Obviously, the correct answer is “squeal”
Kevin said
see-qwel
Donald K. Burleson said
Well, go to the creator.
Ted called it S-Q-L, so help me Codd . . . . .
William Robertson said
Just wait till they get onto Bee-lobs.
carlosal said
‘Ese-Ku-Ele’ (in spanish) ;)
Cheers.
Carlos.
Brian Tkatch said
I use SQL because the predecessor was SEQUEL “Structured English QUEry Language”. Strangley enough, IBM’s documentation uses “an SQL”, showing how they pronounce it.
Anne Onimos said
“suckle”
David Weigel said
I’m pretty schizoid about it. “sequel server”, “s-q-l plus”, “sequel developer”, “s-q-l” (alone), “sql worksheet”.
Grebo said
I have always called it SQrL (as in the animal that eats nuts)
Anonymous said
Tg\he origin os Sequel dates back ro IBM’s System R. A language names Sequel was chosen and later re-named SQL, hence the carry over.