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SQL actually first started out as SEQUEL and then was changed due to trademark issues, so calling it "sequel" is not all that incorrect.
by Skoofoo 13y ago
SQL actually first started out as SEQUEL and then was changed due to trademark issues, so calling it "sequel" is not all that incorrect.
- memracom 13y agoThe way I remember it from Date's db book way back in the late 70's, is that first there was QUEL which stood for QUEry Language. The follow-on improved product was SEQUEL which stood for Structured English QUEry Language and attempted to be more like grammatical english (following on from the concepts of COBOL). The intention was that management (probably accountants) would be able to use this query language themselves to check up on what the programmers had put in the DB. This was then commercialized under the name SQL partly because it was a follow-on improved version of SEQUEL and partly because TLA's were very marketable. Somehow it ended up being used as an interface language for talking to DBs and management never used it at all. I say SQL, of course.