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I 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 seq
by big_chungus 7y ago
I 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.