On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:34:30 -0700, Jared Anderson
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PluggedIn@thegoldenedge.com> wrote:
>
> MySQL:
> ======
> my sequel?
> my S.Q.L.?
Sequel.
Why? Because that was its original name. You can (usually) tell a
newcomer to RDBMS by the way they pronounce this. The original name
for this was
Structured English QUEry Language
Hence, its proper name was SEQUEL. For legal reasons, they had to
change the name to SQL as another company had already trademarked
SEQUEL.
According to ANSI (usually pronounced as a word), we are supposed to
pronounce it letter-by-letter as in ESS-QUEUE-ELL. (I'd provide a link
directly to ANSI's document, but their site was too slow.)
An excellent source for much of this stuff is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
--
Ric Fischer
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