I personally pronounce it S.Q.L
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Germany here: In my company we pronounce every letter, so: "EΓ Kjuh Γl".
I have never heard of someone call SQL squeal lmao, sequel or S Q L is all I have heard
Came here to say this.
I kind go 80/20 Sequel/EsQueueEl (squeal wtf?) when talking in english and "Ese Cu Ele" 100% when talking in Spanish
I like to use the non-acronym name, so that I can say: "Structured Query Language. Or, with the JSON field type, more like UNSTRUCTURED query language!" And then I laugh like a maniac for 5 minutes while the other people in the line at Wendy's give me weird looks.
To be consistent, you should call them JavaScript Object Notation field types
How about Es-Queue-Ell?
This introduces a non-trivial increase in syllabatic inefficiencies
I'm glad this is top comment, I thought I was weird for a moment there
I mean, people call JSON jason, so i suppose sequel for SQL is alright (although, i still use Es-cue-elle). Sizzle absolutely needs to become a thing.
I just pronounce it exactly like reading the letters individually, because I'm actually a human being.
Eye tee oh oh ell eye kay ee tee oh pee are oh en oh you en see ee ee at see aitch ell eye tee tee ee are bee ee see ay you see ee eye tee oh oh ay em ay aitch you em ay en
I'm actually a human being.
Git outta here skinbag!
I have always pronounced it spelled out. Es Qu El
I've also heard Squirrel
I'd be curious if "Squirrel" originated with the SQuirreL client. The only time I've heard someone call SQL "squirrel" was because they were using SQL interchangeably with the client.
Where does the R come from? π€
I also have heard Squirrel, the first time I ever heard of SQL. It was in a webinar info session for just a very superficial top-level type of understanding, really intended for nothing more than to acquaint first-tier support staff with technical terms and concepts. "SQL stands for Structured Query Language. For short, we can call it 'sequel' or 'squirrel'." (Cue stupid clip-art graphic of a buck-toothed smiling squirrel on a tree branch, holding an acorn, because what's a webinar without insipid mnemonics?) That sort of thing.
I grokked the use of 'sequel', because the letter sequence S-Q-L is exactly that word, sans vowels, and even if schwas are substituted for the vowels, the pronunciation doesn't change much.
But for 'squirrel' I had to imagine that they were taking the R from 'queRy' and injecting it to make SQL into SQrL for the sake of a cute memory device that would resonate with people who weren't expected to have any interest or investment deeper than a front-line customer service drone.
In French, we just pronounce it as three letters, so I was very confused at first when my English-speaking colleagues were referring to sequels of apparently nothing.
Itβs always Star Wars
Log4j is another fun one.
Log For Jay or Log Forge?
Low gaj
I'm definitely in the 'sequel' camp, but the favourite I've heard is 'squirrel'. I couldn't get behind that. I have done some stuff in spaces where 'squeal' was used, along with pig iconography being present in internal tools. π·
Both pronounciations are wrong. Skvæl is the correct way to pronounce the acronym.
S-Q-L or rarely sequel, never heard any other pronounciation in my life :P
I second "sizzle" or "sissle." My partner pronounces API as "appy" and it's the best thing ever.
That's adorable.
If I am going to believe random articles I found on the internet (and, of course, I am), the reason is because SQL was originally called SEQUEL until the creators ran into a trademark issue.. They changed it to SQL, but us old timers just kept calling it the old thing. Something about old dogs and new tricks.
https://medium.com/tableplus/how-to-pronounce-sql-properly-s-q-l-or-sequel-7203a5185676
Did not know that, and further googling shows the same story all over the interwebs. Thanks!
!devshowerthoughts (community idea?)
Skwill just to be different.
Ever since I saw this XKCD I've called it Squill
Everything has a relevant XKCD. There's probably even an XKCD about there always being a relevant XKCD.
People who use tabs after punctuation π₯²
People pronounce Sql as squeal? O.o
Only monsters
"people"
I had a project manager back in 2008 who pronounced SQL "skwall." I heard "My Skwall" and "Skwall Server" so many times. We all said "S Q L." No one ever corrected him.
Some are more established than others. The one with the highest levels of agreement I've ever encountered, is SCSI, which pretty much everyone in-the-know pronounce "scuzzy".
I'm struggling to realise it's anything but scuzzy.
definitely using βsizzleβ at the earliest available opportunity
To my inner mind its "seek well", but I just say the letters.
I've always pronounced it "sequel", but ever since I attended a talk by the authors of PHP and MySQL Web Programming, and they pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell I've been second guessing myself.
What I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying:
Only Microsoft folks say "Sequel Server", we say "My S Q L"
I always pronounced it as ess-cue-ell but gave up on it when everyone in professional environments said "sequel".
SurrealDB has Surreal QL. I abbreviate it SuQL and pronounce it "suckle," haha
The execution environment should be called "teat"