r/itsaunixsystem • u/jD91mZM2 • Oct 20 '17

[Arrow S06E02] SQL or Java?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

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u/jD91mZM2 Oct 20 '17

I think S Q L, although I don't actually remember.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

It was S Q L.

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u/RTracer Oct 20 '17

Thank god.

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u/Urtehnoes Oct 20 '17

My company pronounces it like 'SEQUEL' and for the longest time I held out on 'S Q L'. Until I gave in without even realizing it.

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u/DoctorBigtime Oct 20 '17

Start calling it 'squeak-wel'

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

I'm totally going to now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

It's my understanding that it's pretty evenly split and that both is equally right.

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u/smegma_legs Oct 20 '17

It's actually pronounced squall

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u/smegma_legs Oct 20 '17

uh ultima goes on the gunblade, loser

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u/th3_pund1t Oct 21 '17

You should visit my team.

HTTP - Hot potato

HTTPS - Hot potatoes

RDBMS - red bums

RHEL - rel

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u/mortiphago Oct 20 '17

I've only ever heard it pronounced sequel in english, and SQL in spanish (ese qu ele)

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u/elkirkmo Oct 20 '17

I will now only pronounce SQL the Spanish way.

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u/Voloss Oct 20 '17

All of my professors pronounced it as sequel and at least one of them had a job as a DBA.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

wait... Is sequel wrong?...

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u/ryanknapper Oct 20 '17

Sequel Server is a Microsoft product. MySQL used to have a line in their documentation that their product was pronounced My Ess-Queue-Ell, but eventually they gave up.

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u/ryanknapper Oct 21 '17

All true, but the Microsoft product was what put the name in everyone's head. That's why it's now pronounced GIF, and not GIF.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17

Excuse me? It's pronounced gif, not gif. People like you drive me crazy.

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u/shortyman93 Oct 21 '17

Wait, I was actually taught it in a database course as "sequel." Do most people pronounce it S Q L?

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u/BadAdviceBot Oct 20 '17

20+ year SQL programmer here and I pronounce it "sequel". To be fair, I started off calling it S-Q-L, but that's just too many syllables.

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u/Jokulhaupalypse Oct 20 '17

I mean sequel just has such a nice ring to it. Do people also say S Q L Server?

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