I say sequel when talking about the language. I'm in my early 30s for reference. I say relational database when I want to talk about the DB itself to distingui

I say sequel when talking about the language. I'm in my early 30s for reference. I say relational database when I want to talk about the DB itself to distinguish it from the others :) Btw ... the reason it is common is because sequel used to be a predecessor to SQL.