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SQL Pronounciation w/poll

In my experience in the professional world, those who have any real knowledge to share about the subject always use S-Q-L, people who reads terms to mention in interviews and conversation say SEQUAL, and 15 year olds say SQUEAL.
 
Originally posted by: GeneralDisarray
In my experience in the professional world, those who have any real knowledge to share about the subject always use S-Q-L, people who reads terms to mention in interviews and conversation say SEQUAL, and 15 year olds say SQUEAL.
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My experience says the exact opposite - its always the fresh out of school newbies that say S-Q-L, while we older dogs say "sequel".
 
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Originally posted by: GeneralDisarray
In my experience in the professional world, those who have any real knowledge to share about the subject always use S-Q-L, people who reads terms to mention in interviews and conversation say SEQUAL, and 15 year olds say SQUEAL.
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My experience says the exact opposite - its always the fresh out of school newbies that say S-Q-L, while we older dogs say "sequel".
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Mine as well. Only newbs and sales people say S-Q-L.
 
I've always said S-Q-L and i don't really have my experience working with databases, a little mysql but not much more.
 
I say "sequel", other pronunciations are wrong.

EDIT: who kinda fool would actualy spell out SATA?, do they say R-A-D-A-R isntead of radar, or N-A-S-D-A-Q instead of nasdaq?
 
I usually pronounce it Sequel, especially when referencing applications (Microsoft Sequel Server). However, when referencing the language itself, I often use the S-Q-L pronunciation.

In all of the professional groups that I have worked with, Sequel seems to be the accepted pronunciation.
 
Originally posted by: daniel1113
I usually pronounce it Sequel, especially when referencing applications (Microsoft Sequel Server). However, when referencing the language itself, I often use the S-Q-L pronunciation.

In all of the professional groups that I have worked with, Sequel seems to be the accepted pronunciation.
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Originally posted by: daniel1113
I usually pronounce it Sequel, especially when referencing applications (Microsoft Sequel Server). However, when referencing the language itself, I often use the S-Q-L pronunciation.

In all of the professional groups that I have worked with, Sequel seems to be the accepted pronunciation.
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Same here except when I talk about MySQL I say my-sequel, whereas with MSSQL I say the letters m-s-s-q-l, and with PostgreSQL it's kind of a hybrid of the two - postgres-q-l.

 
Originally posted by: jjones
Same here except when I talk about MySQL I say my-sequel, whereas with MSSQL I say the letters m-s-s-q-l, and with PostgreSQL it's kind of a hybrid of the two - postgres-q-l.
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I think "Sequel" is the old-school way of pronouncing it. Since I've always hated that because it sounds stupid, I just go with the individual letters.

MySQL's own manual says "The official way to pronounce ?MySQL? is ?My Ess Que Ell? (not ?my sequel?), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ?my sequel? or in some other localized way."
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Originally posted by: GeneralDisarray
In my experience in the professional world, those who have any real knowledge to share about the subject always use S-Q-L, people who reads terms to mention in interviews and conversation say SEQUAL, and 15 year olds say SQUEAL.
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My experience says the exact opposite - its always the fresh out of school newbies that say S-Q-L, while we older dogs say "sequel".
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Mine as well. Only newbs and sales people say S-Q-L.
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Thirded. Only noobies spell it out.
 
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Originally posted by: GeneralDisarray
In my experience in the professional world, those who have any real knowledge to share about the subject always use S-Q-L, people who reads terms to mention in interviews and conversation say SEQUAL, and 15 year olds say SQUEAL.
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My experience says the exact opposite - its always the fresh out of school newbies that say S-Q-L, while we older dogs say "sequel".
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This has been my experience too. Sequel is easier to say, saying S-Q-L over and over again becomes tiresome. I work on Oracle DBs though, and when I say PL/SQL It's P-L-S-Q-L, not PL Sequel.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: spidey07
Thirded. Only noobies spell it out.
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You're a network guy though right? Not a programmer.
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Yeah, but I work with a lot of experienced application/DB folks. Tell them how to write their queries and DBs better because they're supremely inefficient. 😉
 
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