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I thought it was always pronounced "sequel-ite" personally
by scohesc 7y ago
I thought it was always pronounced "sequel-ite" personally
- cheez 7y agoAnd I thought it was S-Q-lite. S-Q-L-ite makes sense though. Most consistent.
- larrydag 7y agoMySQL is the same way. A lot of people say My-sequel but I think its supposed to be my-ess-que-ell
- zitterbewegung 7y agoWe need a normal form for pronouncing and naming relational databases. I’m half joking but it might alleviate people from being confused.
- wongarsu 7y agoI thought the norm was to pronounce SQL as "sequel" in Microsoft products and "ES-QUEUE-EL" in every other context
- WorldMaker 7y agoThe norm is to pronounce it by how likely you think you might get yelled at for trademark infringement by a holding company of the assets of an old aircraft company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley The name confusion is all IBM's fault. > Chamberlin and Boyce's first attempt of a relational database language was Square, but it was difficult to use due to subscript notation. After moving to the San Jose Research Laboratory in 1973, they began work on SEQUEL. The acronym SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering Limited company.
- zentiggr 7y agoSo that trademark has been un-revivable since 2005... long past time to start saying "sequel" for real :)
- DennisP 7y agoI preferred to call it "Squeal Server."
- ncmncm 7y agoAbsolutely. Squealer for short.
- ivalm 7y agoI looked it up, you're right, it is officially my-ess-que-ell. This leads to another question, how do you pronounce "NoSQL"? I couldn't find a convincing answer on the web. I used to say "sequel" for everything SQL related but clearly I was wrong.
- WorldMaker 7y agoPostgreSQL is the fun one out because they officially say it is Postgres-Q-L. The "it's always S-Q-L and never `sequel`" is IBM's fault and an early trademark infringement issue in computing. (IBM was told it couldn't call it "SEQUEL" by an aircraft company.)
- big_chungus 7y agoI typically go with just "postgres" for phonetic pronunciation. Not sure how else it would be done; "postgres sequel?"
- bhandziuk 7y agoPostgres queue ell
- airstrike 7y agoI go with psql personally
- why-el 7y agogenuinely not sure if you are joking or not, but that's not the same thing as postgres! :)
- jdfellow 7y agoI've heard Postgres pronounced as if it were French. "Postgree."
- andrewflnr 7y agoI've heard that, but assumed it came from splitting up the name as "Postgre"+"SQL"; if you leave off the SQL part you get a word ending in E, and "postgreh" can't be right, can it? :)
- WorldMaker 7y ago
- somurzakov 7y agomy-ass-que-ell is the way to go
- buckminster 7y agoSequel-lite here. I know that makes no sense phonetically.
- sweeneyrod 7y agoNo love for "seekwelitay"?
- 333c 7y agoThis is how I will pronounce SQLite from now on.
- randomdude402 7y agoI'm totally in on this. We can make it happen!
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- phnofive 7y agoEskewellite Sequelliteh Squalitee Cirquerlanite Diet Seek-well
- ncmncm 7y agoSqueal-ite. Because SQL is "squeal", like the pig. PostgreSQL is pronounced "post-gres". You absolutely never pronounce the "QL".
- mercer 7y agoIs your name Ay-ayron? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
- agumonkey 7y agoand it does sound like a mineral which is quite in line with how I see sqlite.. pretty, timeless and rock solid
- big_chungus 7y agoI think there's a case for disputing the official pronunciation because it's based off an "official" pronunciation of SQL. I've heard it ess-queue-elle and sequel, but personally side with sequel. It was originally called “Structured English Query Language”, abbreviated and pronounced "SEQUEL"; later shortened to "SQL" but same pronunciation. So I figure sequel-ite is a perfectly legitimate pronunciation.
- Stratoscope 7y agoAdding to that, in the mid-1980s I worked at a company called Gupta Technologies, founded by Umang Gupta and Bruce Scott of Oracle. Their first product was SQLBase, pronounced "sequel base". The next product, which I worked on, was SQLWindows, pronounced "sequel windows". We knew that some people pronounced SQL "ess cue ell", but no one at the company pronounced it that way, ever.
- danso 7y agoThat's how I do it. I understand the etymological reasons for "S-Q-L-ite", but SQLite is just too ubiquitous in my everyday work for me to speak 4 syllables when referring to it.
- gavinray 7y agoLast month I discover NGINX is not pronounced "en-jinx", and today I discover SQLite is not pronounced "sequel-light". 2020 is turning out to be pretty terrible guys.
- lioeters 7y agoYou and me both, my friend. Apparently I've been using S-Q-L-ite, not S-Q-Lite. All these years I've been using "Engine-X", not "en-jinx", and didn't know it.. https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/community/faq/ https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/community/faq/
- Volundr 7y agoI only knew it because I had to look up the pronunciation. I kept calling it N-G-I-N-X, but could never remember the spelling.
- barneygale 7y agoWait until you hear how 'valgrind' rhymes with 'grinned'!
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoI've been getting that wrong for quite a while. There's a certain irony in getting the name of a debugging tool wrong.
- zzo38computer 7y agoI have always pronounced "NGINX" as /ŋɪŋks/. So, I was wrong, too. But I always pronounced "SQLite" and "valgrind" properly, at least.