On Monday, March 28, 2005 12:17 PM Ric Fischer wrote
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:34:30 -0700, Jared Anderson
> <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
From the official MySQL documentation:
" 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."
--
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/what-is.html#IDX25
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
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