SQL is not the same thing as SEQUEL. If you’re a grumpy old DBA, stuck in your ways, who actually used SEQUEL back in the 1970s, that’s fine. For all the new kids just getting into SQL, it’s pronounced es-que-el, not sequel. When you call it sequel, you sound like just as much of an idiot as someone who says lynuks. It’s annoying.
The “SQL” pronunciation is actually defined in the original 1986 specification for SQL and confirmed by common DBMS such as MySQL.
“Sequel” is the official microsoft pronunciation though, so if you’re using MS SQL server, that’s how you should probably say it. Better then “squirrel” or “squeel”.
Even Microsoft pronounce it correctly.
its sql…. there is a language called sequel, those of you who pretend its sequel are refering to a language you don’t know how to program in.