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bergie on July 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for...

SQL is pronounced as sequel, so I'd definitely go with uncool. Even though this actually can be quite cool.

Looking forward to explaining to a client that yes, we just need to run this one uncool query to get the report ;-)

ryeguy on July 29, 2011 [–]

SQL is not pronounced as "sequel". The ANSI standard declared that it is pronounced S-Q-L.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Standardization

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