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MySQL is the same way. A lot of people say My-sequel but I think its supposed to be my-ess-que-ell
by larrydag 7y ago
MySQL 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