Pronunciation POLL Part II - MYSQL
 

The history... SEQUEL came before MYSQL and the only thing they share is common is basic functionality.. Put in a statement and get a result. So when MYSQL came out it was thought that MY Sequel would be the wrong way to pronounce it since it might 1) be grounds for a lawsuit by IBM and 2) confuse people that think it is a derivative of SEQUEL.

This time they got it wrong... It is not MY S Q L since that is 4 syllables and any coder knows that if you can do it with less and be more efficient you do it with less...

MY S Q L
1 - 2-3-4

MY SEQUEL
1 -- 2 --3

So when we talk on the phone about LI-nux and MY-SEQUEL you had better pronounce this fucking shit right and not like they taught you in fucking school. You just show off that you are a newb with no experience or real skills when you do that.

error on the Linnux, but that's the whole other thread :1orglaugh

I say My ES Q EL - but any english speaking person I have met say myseekwell.

I pronounce it like:
MYSQL
1 - 2

Sounds like "High School"
My-SKUEL

I make it even shorter, and thus make it better. I rule.

:1orglaugh

My-S-Q-L :2 cents:


just as S-Q-L by itself :2 cents:


for those that don't say My-S-Q-L, how do you pronounce SQL by itself then? :error

you have to much time on your hands. Who cares???

mycql.....

You plagiarizing bastard!

Jeff Spicoli pronounced it that way in Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982. Give the credit where credit is due!

Being a bit of a geek I have had this same discussion quite a few times - i always say MY-S-Q-L (My Ess Queue Elle) which is apparently the correct pronunciation :2 cents:

Way to stay on point with that avatar.

I make so much cash I have time to fuck off and die every time someone tells me too.

Well I know IBM wanted it to be pronounced "Seek Well", but its not the way I say it..

point still stays

"sequel"

I say it like this...

MISS QUILL

Do you pronounce ICQ "Ickcue"?

Sequel ?

I'm confused.....

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/...-is-mysql.html

"The official way to pronounce ?MySQL? is ?My Ess Que Ell? (not ?my sequel?), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ?my sequel? or in some other localized way. "

Mai ese ku ele!

I was going to say...
Linux guys say My S-Q-L (properly from Structured Query Language)
Windows guys say My Sequel as in 'seek well'

I see 3 letters, so I say 3 letters. S-Q-L
If it was mysequel, I'd say it mysequel.

That's just how my brain works.

Why not just SQL; who doesn't know that it's mine?

Funny, but there is a SQL, and MS SQL, and MySQL and so forth.

Windows guys are clearly idiots.

True, but nobody using PHP would ever know that. :1orglaugh

my sequel sounds stupid, it's almost kinda like someone trying to pronounce PHP as Pe-Hep or something similar...

MY SEQUEL runs on the new MacBook Wheel!!!!!

Welp this thread just got fucking OWNED. Hahaha.... suckers... My sequel... good lord. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...-is-mysql.html

Q.E.D.

Edit: Didn't see the post above by d-null.

S tructured

Q uery

L anguage


=> es-que-ell

Th true question, however, is this: how do you pronounce PostgreSQL without choking?

Just because microsoft markets theirs as "sequel server" doesn't mean SQL is pronounced sequel :2 cents:

For me I just say S-Q-L and anytime I hear SEQUEL, I always ask if they mean MYSQL.

Ding ding ding - we have a winner.

This is exactly why I say my sequel - I learnt first on post gresquel first, then went over to my sequel.....

es queue elle, my aye are esss

I've only ever called any database server the same thing:

"Get your fucking dirty mitts away from that server or I'll slap your stupid face.".

ok... now I have to find part I :1orglaugh

sequel

i've always called it sequel.

I've never had to say it out loud.

I remember walking into a computer store a couple of years ago and asking for a "Serial ATA drive."

"Oh, you mean saa-taa"