How do you pronounce 'SQL'?

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I always thought it was es-que-el, but then I heard the IT lot call it sequel, so I started doing that. But then I was reading the University challenge thread, and people were saying that pronouncing it sequal was evil. So what's the answer?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

Squirrel.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

My boss calls it Sequel. I call it ess-queue-ell.

According to MySQL's FAQ, *its* name should be pronounced "My Ess Queue Ell". Whether that should affect your pronounciation of the language is up to you.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Depends on whether you consider it an abbreviation or an acronym.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

MIA's Quill

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

ess queue ell. except when it's in the sense of SQL Server, in which case you call it "Sequel Server", because "ess queue ell server" is too long winded.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

but then I heard the IT lot call it sequel

Wankers. Bet they say "going forward" and "24/7" too. Call it es-que-el.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

ideally you just don't talk about it in speech at all, cos it's geeky shit.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

SQLs not THAT geeky (as geeky things go, it's hardly rocket science) and you have to refer to it in real life ovccasionally.

Bet they say "going forward" and "24/7" too.

This is true - I heard them refering to a "page-turning exercise" the other day.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with saying 24/7? i do that sometimes.... :-(

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

24/7/52/100

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

sqill

― moley, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

if there ever was a SQL, would you love me like an =

would you love me til i'm dead, or does there exists (select person from lovers where name "me");

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

You enormous nerd.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

You enormous (twee) nerd.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

select count(*) from nerds where boardid="ILE" group by twee order by the lord harry

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

timeout error

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

My boss just asked me about "converting Sequel to My Ess Queue Ell"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

EM ESS ESS KYU EL
MAI SEQUEL
POSTGREZ
SEQUEL TWOTHOUSAND

the most popular way to say it in my office is still "ORACLE" though

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Anyway apart from BTRIEVE

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, depends on the application. My Ess Queue Ell, or Sequel Server.

Though lately the only thing people have been saying to me is "ACT" which makes me run screaming out of the room. :-(

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

ACT?

Sorry, I'm behind the times.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

No, ACT is very much behind the times.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

squillx0r
(ok not really)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

squeal

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

(basically kate works in a theatre)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

PHB: cquell
Dilbert/Dogbert/Catbert/Alice/Bob The Dinosaur/Ratbert: s q l

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

The way a person answers this question tells you how much of Microsoft's Kool-Aid they have consumed.

― The Ghost of Sequel; It's Too LAte For Me, Save Yourselves (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Where I work, us dum QA'ers say the letters and the know-it-all developers say sequel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Skol

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

MAH SEQUEL

― am0n, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

so can anyone recommend a sql query program for mac? something cheap and similar to enterprise i guess. looking at RazorSQL

― am0n, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Mysql command line is good enough for me

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

SQL Grinder is about the best of the lot. It has a few bugs, such as being incapable of handling multiple simultaneous result sets and some namespace issues, but it's the least annoying I've found. SQL4X Manager J has a decent featureset, but the lack of nice Cocoa bindings is off-putting.

― libcrypt, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

If you don't need database agnosticism, then there are some decent db-specific tools out there, especially for MySQL.

― libcrypt, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

sqool

― jel --, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

squeal

― ice crӕm, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

sql grinder doesn't support microsoft sql? there's no driver for it

― am0n, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

SQL Grinder does support MSSQL. Just drop in the official JDBC driver from MS. As long as you fully qualify table names and don't request multiple resultsets, you'll be fine.

― libcrypt, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

nm i see it, thanks. also trying out db solo

― am0n, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

Suckle

― Øystein, Monday, 25 August 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

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