17 Jul
2009
17 Jul
'09
9:52 a.m.
2009/7/16 Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>:
When IBM first developed the language, it was called
SEQUEL. ?It was renamed
to SQL later, because of a trademark issue. ?The pronunciation "sequel" is
older than the abbreviation "SQL".
/Thank/ you, Sridhar.
Jules, David: I'm afraid it really doesn't matter if you like it or
not. The pronunciation "sequel" is correct, because SEQUEL, IBM's
Structured English QUEry Language, was called that, and the one that
now bears the initialism S. Q. L. was derived from this.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/sequel-1974.pdf
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