How do you pronounce SQL?
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
I usually just pronounce it Sequel. As in Sequel Server. However, for the diehard *NIX fans, I usually just act like I care around them and pronounce mySQL as myS-Q-L.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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Well, some people use the "ess cue ell" pronunciation, but I'm a hard-headed mule diehard fan of pronouncing it like "sequel" because that's the name SQL came from initially when IBM created it in the 70's. It was originally called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), but had to be changed for copyright reasons. All the sudden, we got SQL. Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
Hey hey! Jeremy! Where have you been? Welcome back. :-D
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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Welcome back Jeremy! I hope this means things are looking up on your side :) Jeremy Falcon wrote: but had to be changed for copyright reasons. All the sudden, we got SQL :laugh: So they could not use SEQL but they could use SQL? :laugh: How lame! Pretty strange too considering that if I launched Mcrosoft, for isntance, I would have the hairs on my arse sued off.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaShog9 wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul.
Paul Watson wrote: Welcome back Jeremy! I hope this means things are looking up on your side Thanks, me too. I did get another job, but it's in New Orleans instead of Baton Rouge. So, I guess I'm moving. Funny thing though, as soon as I agreed on this one a better opportunity arose. Herm, I guess I'll have to see about that one. Only thing that sucks is I had to sell my Mac laptop. Some may say that's good; some may say that's bad. Who knows. Paul Watson wrote: So they could not use SEQL but they could use SQL? That's my understanding of it. Crazy, but hey, it at least save us from typing an extra letter. :) Paul Watson wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul. LOL! Well, one out of two ain't bad. :~ Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
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Hey hey! Jeremy! Where have you been? Welcome back. :-D
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
David Stone wrote: Hey hey! Jeremy! Where have you been? I've been stressed out. :) I lost my job about a month ago, and have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get a new one and some money to live on because I was not prepared for it. One of them life lessons I guess. But, now (after many countless hours of male prostitution) I made it through. :) David Stone wrote: Welcome back. Thanks. It's kinda hard to stay away from this place for too long. Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
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Paul Watson wrote: Welcome back Jeremy! I hope this means things are looking up on your side Thanks, me too. I did get another job, but it's in New Orleans instead of Baton Rouge. So, I guess I'm moving. Funny thing though, as soon as I agreed on this one a better opportunity arose. Herm, I guess I'll have to see about that one. Only thing that sucks is I had to sell my Mac laptop. Some may say that's good; some may say that's bad. Who knows. Paul Watson wrote: So they could not use SEQL but they could use SQL? That's my understanding of it. Crazy, but hey, it at least save us from typing an extra letter. :) Paul Watson wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul. LOL! Well, one out of two ain't bad. :~ Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: LOL! Well, one out of two ain't bad. Indeed, and being naked is refreshing with or without the famous bit... :rolleyes: :~
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaShog9 wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul.
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David Stone wrote: Hey hey! Jeremy! Where have you been? I've been stressed out. :) I lost my job about a month ago, and have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get a new one and some money to live on because I was not prepared for it. One of them life lessons I guess. But, now (after many countless hours of male prostitution) I made it through. :) David Stone wrote: Welcome back. Thanks. It's kinda hard to stay away from this place for too long. Jeremy Falcon Imputek Excrement escapes everyone - even elders.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: after many countless hours of male prostitution :laugh: Haha! That's a good one...You...are...joking...right?
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
"Ess Que Ell" I nearly killed the network admin at my company for calling it "squirrel." @KUHSADUFIK ! bleeeep :mad: He also said "scuzzy", when he meant "SCSI." So he got hurt for that. :) evilpen dot net::msn messenger:negacao@hotmail.com
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"Ess Que Ell" I nearly killed the network admin at my company for calling it "squirrel." @KUHSADUFIK ! bleeeep :mad: He also said "scuzzy", when he meant "SCSI." So he got hurt for that. :) evilpen dot net::msn messenger:negacao@hotmail.com
That's how everybody pronounces SCSI...scuzzy.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
Portuguese speakers pronounce it as Ass K L a I see dumb people
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gregs wrote: Squirrel You mean skwrl don't you? :rolleyes:
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaShog9 wrote: Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul.
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That's how everybody pronounces SCSI...scuzzy.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
David Stone wrote: That's how everybody pronounces SCSI...scuzzy. I pronounce it "overpriced":-D "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Squeal, as in "squeal like a pig."
Seconded.
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
Squiggle BW "If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius
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David Stone wrote: That's how everybody pronounces SCSI...scuzzy. I pronounce it "overpriced":-D "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
:-D Not when work pays for it...then it's called "fast".
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
Sucky Query Language Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Sucky Query Language Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian GrausI think somebody here doesn't like SQL at all...;P
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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I think somebody here doesn't like SQL at all...;P
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
:laugh: Actually, I use it almost daily. However: Structured - there's nothing structured about it Query - It does more than queries Language - Who are you kidding? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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:laugh: Actually, I use it almost daily. However: Structured - there's nothing structured about it Query - It does more than queries Language - Who are you kidding? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian GrausMarc Clifton wrote: Structured - there's nothing structured about it Query - It does more than queries Language - Who are you kidding? :laugh: That's great! How true. However the thing that I hate most about SQL is that it is so pervasive(pun intended). I mean come on...do we really need an introductory SQL chapter in every programming book?
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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I have heard Sequal, and Squal. What is the correct way? Darroll
Sequel or S-Q-L, depending on who you ask. If you're talking about SQL Server, then "Sequel." If you're talking about MySQL, then "My S-Q-L." Jon Sagara When I want something, I just go out and buy it. That makes me a go-getter. -- My sister
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I say es-que-ell. S.Q.L. Now there's a novel idea. :)
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
"Desktop Bob told me to start fires" - thematt
I'm sorry David, but your are wrong. The proper way to pronounce SQL is sequel, see-kwel. :cool: Jason Gerard "This almost never matters, except quite often."