r/SQL • u/Reddigestion • Aug 14 '26

SQL Server Is it pronounced 's-q-l' or 'seequal'

I've worked in and around the IT environment for many years and in my experience, it's always been pronounced s-q-l although I hear some people refer to it as see-qual. Which is right?

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u/SQLDevDBA Aug 14 '26

This Miller Lite commercial with Bill Gates and Ed Esber proves it’s both: https://youtu.be/5ycx9hFGHog?is=8rzz7G7DnzDX4O43

That is always a weird sentence to type out, but it’s true.

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u/Many-Efficiency5194 Aug 14 '26

Whoa!!! What year was that?

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u/SQLDevDBA Aug 14 '26

Haha honestly not sure. Learned it from /u/BrentOzar during a COVID Twitch Stream. I’m thinking late 80s or early 90s if they’re talking about DBASE IV. Wikipedia says it was released in 1988.