SQL or Sequal?
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Everyone around here says Sequal.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
I say Squirrel.
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If you are referring to the language the official pronunciation is Sequel[^] if you are referring to the Microsoft Product the pronunciation is S.Q.L. Server to aid in the disambiguation. Whereas a Sequel Server would be any ANSI-SQL database. While I do not have an official reference, reading the Wiki on SQL suggests that SEQUEL is a trademarked name. Thus M.S. would not be able to use Sequel in advertising. Industry best-practice, however, is to fully qualify the product since there is so much confusion with regards to the myriad numbers of SQL based products. Remember, Microsoft isn't the big player in this field (17% market-share vs. Oracle 49%)
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So I post this question to you all since I grew up being told it is S-Q-L Server and the professors getting upset at hearing Sequal Server or just plain Sequal. Then I get this job here and the younger web developer says it is Sequal, not S-Q-L. I stand by my teaching and still say S-Q-L. You?
What is this word Sequal? Is that like a Sequel to a movie? :)
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S-Q-L. No need pronouncation.
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**Ok, S minus Q minus L, I still don't know the answer! :)
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What is this word Sequal? Is that like a Sequel to a movie? :)
Yea. It's the sequel to the sequal. My bad for misspelling it! :doh:
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So I post this question to you all since I grew up being told it is S-Q-L Server and the professors getting upset at hearing Sequal Server or just plain Sequal. Then I get this job here and the younger web developer says it is Sequal, not S-Q-L. I stand by my teaching and still say S-Q-L. You?
If you're unsure, you could always use my method: Monday: Pronounce it "Sequel" Tuesday: Pronounce it "S-Q-L" Wednesday: Flip a coin evertime you need to say it Thursday: Alternate each time you need to say it Friday: Refuse to speak at all Saturday & Sunday: find a non-programming hobby
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So I post this question to you all since I grew up being told it is S-Q-L Server and the professors getting upset at hearing Sequal Server or just plain Sequal. Then I get this job here and the younger web developer says it is Sequal, not S-Q-L. I stand by my teaching and still say S-Q-L. You?
NoSql!
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Yea. It's the sequel to the sequal. My bad for misspelling it! :doh:
twohowlingdogs wrote:
My bad for misspelling it!
I don't know if you misspelled it, I was just giving you a jab over it. :) I refer to "SQL Server" as "sequal server". I refer to SQL as "SQL". My 2 cents.
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Red bums.
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Everyone around here says Sequal.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Everyone around here says Sequal.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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twohowlingdogs wrote:
My bad for misspelling it!
I don't know if you misspelled it, I was just giving you a jab over it. :) I refer to "SQL Server" as "sequal server". I refer to SQL as "SQL". My 2 cents.
I actually went to wikipedia and searched for sequal and got something oh so unrelated! :-O So yea...misspelling. ;P
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I actually went to wikipedia and searched for sequal and got something oh so unrelated! :-O So yea...misspelling. ;P
You do realize that I will have to go to Wikipedia now and investigate this issue you have been so kind (I think) to bring to our attention. :-D
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So I post this question to you all since I grew up being told it is S-Q-L Server and the professors getting upset at hearing Sequal Server or just plain Sequal. Then I get this job here and the younger web developer says it is Sequal, not S-Q-L. I stand by my teaching and still say S-Q-L. You?
Spelling.
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You do realize that I will have to go to Wikipedia now and investigate this issue you have been so kind (I think) to bring to our attention. :-D
Sweet! I'm glad I could give everyone a reason to stop work and research something WAY more important! :laugh:
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I say Squirrel.
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So I post this question to you all since I grew up being told it is S-Q-L Server and the professors getting upset at hearing Sequal Server or just plain Sequal. Then I get this job here and the younger web developer says it is Sequal, not S-Q-L. I stand by my teaching and still say S-Q-L. You?
From an old programmers perspective using Sequal instead of SQL is confusing. Sequal arguably, was the first query language brought out by IBM in 70/80's if memory serves (which it usually doesn't). There is also another language about that time called Quel or Qual. So it can get a little confusing for us old timers. :laugh:
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Sequel... what? how do you call C#? "Ci-pound??" ...runs behind the chair and cover his ears, after knowing that he has just started a new flame war....
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Soulus83 wrote:
how do you call C#? "Ci-pound??"
I call it "see crunch", if it were "C!", I'd call it "see bang" before noon and "see shriek" after noon , "C@" would be "see snail" .... :laugh:
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Ok, S minus Q minus L, I still don't know the answer! :)
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Ok, S minus Q minus L, I still don't know the answer! :)
maybe J- or -J :^)
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From an old programmers perspective using Sequal instead of SQL is confusing. Sequal arguably, was the first query language brought out by IBM in 70/80's if memory serves (which it usually doesn't). There is also another language about that time called Quel or Qual. So it can get a little confusing for us old timers. :laugh:
paul_brogan wrote:
Sequal arguably, was the first query language brought out by IBM in 70/80's if memory serves
Almost, but not quite, it seems that SEQUEL and SQL were not always one and the same. "At the time IBM didn't believe in the potential of Codd's ideas, leaving the implementation to a group of programmers not under Codd's supervision, who violated several fundamentals of Codd's relational model; the result was Structured English QUEry Language or SEQUEL. When IBM released its first relational database product, they wanted to have a commercial-quality sublanguage as well, so it overhauled SEQUEL and renamed the basically new language (System Query Language) SQL to differentiate it from SEQUEL." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2 So, does "Sequal" refer to System Query Language, or to Structured English QUEry Language Perhaps it should be pronounced "Codds Wallop" :D I worked on a system 38 for a while, then the client downgraded to a System/3 or was it an AS/400, no matter I deserted ship to return to the warm arms of Digital.
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