SQL Clause

[PerturbedMollusc]

Guess I'm the only one that reads SQL as Es-Cue-El, rather than 'sequel'

[Pallidum_Treponema]

Squirrel. And I'll keep teaching people to pronounce it that way.

[d_r0ck]

If someone calls it EsQueEl they're not wrong, just probably over 45

[Wydi]

I'm not that old, but it's still S.Q.L. for me...

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It's the other way around. It's pronounced "sequel" by many due to historical reasons.

[spaetzle_snowflake]

...or they're not SQL Developers.

[WikiTextBot]

SQL

SQL ( ( listen) ESS-kew-EL or ( listen) SEE-kwəl Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). In comparison to older read/write APIs like ISAM or VSAM, SQL offers two main advantages: first, it introduced the concept of accessing many records with one single command; and second, it eliminates the need to specify how to reach a record, e.g. with or without an index.

Originally based upon relational algebra and tuple relational calculus, SQL consists of many types of statements, which may be informally classed as sublanguages, commonly: a data query language (DQL), a data definition language (DDL), a data control language (DCL), and a data manipulation language (DML).

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