cocobean@sh.itjust.works to Programming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoSome people pronounce SQL as "sequel", and some as "squeal"message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareSome people pronounce SQL as "sequel", and some as "squeal"cocobean@sh.itjust.works to Programming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekhendron@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI’ve always pronounced it “sequel”, but ever since I attended a talk by the authors of PHP and MySQL Web Programming, and they pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell I’ve been second guessing myself.
minus-squareeddythompson@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWhat I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying: Only Microsoft folks say “Sequel Server”, we say “My S Q L”
minus-squareFalse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.
I’ve always pronounced it “sequel”, but ever since I attended a talk by the authors of PHP and MySQL Web Programming, and they pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell I’ve been second guessing myself.
What I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying:
I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said “sequel”.