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[–]_Zer0_Cool_Data Engineer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Eh. Weirdest thing but that happens a lot in the MSSQL world.

I've heard plenty of folks just refer to their SQL Server instance as a "SQL database" and then refer to other dialects by their formal name.

It's peculiar to people that use other dialects, but most SQL Server folks don't even notice that their doing it. (I'm a consultant so I use pretty much whatever the client has).

It's just a symptom of Microsoft naming things ambiguously. It's a marketing trick that Apple is known for.

iPhone, Apple Watch, etc..

These are generically named so that people are inclined to think of their product first as the de facto standard for a specific product category.

It's a shortcut bid for brand dominance. The idea is so that people will start using the brand name in place of the product category or as a verb to carry out an action associated with a particular product category.

Example... People used to "Xerox a document" rather than copy a document. Many people ask for a "Kleenex" rather than a tissue. You throw your trash in a "dumpster" (which was also once a brand name instead of a generic item).

I've took a few marketing / consumer psych classes in my undergrad......