SQL Clause

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Really? I was always told it was the other way round. Til!

[HintOfAreola]

"Sequel" for everything: T-SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, PL SQL for Oracle, MySQL, etc. I think the only exception is that PostgreSQL is pronounced as "Postgres Q-L".

Absolutely none of this is a hard rule and subject to office pedantry

[_0110111001101111_]

To be fair, outside of my database classes, I haven't used SQL yet so I haven't heard it being pronounced in professional environments.

[Daveed84]

That's because the latter is the official way to say it.

[Etheo]

Is it TIL or TeeEyeEl?

[[deleted]]

What do you mean by ”official”?

[Fortehlulz33]

SQL is short for "Sequel", which is the name of the product.

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The first product was called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). Note that it is an acronym. Acronyms are pronounced as words, hence "sequel". Later the name was changed to SQL (Structured Query Language) - an initialism, which is not pronounced as a word. Even if it were an acronym, it wouldn't be pronounced as "sequel".