How is SQL pronounced? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 22, 2010 · The first version/draft of SQL was in fact called Structured English Query Language and the acronym was SEQUEL. Due to trademark violations on the acronym, the name was changed to …
pronunciation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jun 6, 2018 · 2 In database technology there is a standard called "Structured Query Language", which is abbreviated as SQL. However, some people pronounce SQL as "SeQueL". If SQL is an …
articles - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Nov 27, 2024 · Hello, Josh. The default usage of acronym has the 'read as if a single word' caveat. Check in most dictionaries; they've updated their entries. So SOAS and UNESCO (and radar) are by …
computing - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Feb 21, 2017 · SQL is a query language and HTML is considered a markup language. I'm looking for an English word that describes all these different kinds of language in the context of software development.
What is the one word for different form of same thing?
May 1, 2016 · 0 I am making a report over different database languages. I am curious to know if there is one word for representing different forms/variants of the same ting ? Is "dialect" okay ? say "SQL …
Non-technical word or phrase to describe a data "query"
Jun 30, 2015 · The scenario is that I am replying to an email from a colleague requesting statistics from a database. I am wanting to say that the results are of the same 'query' that was run the last time …
What is the correct pronunciation of SQLite?
Feb 16, 2018 · The two varieties for SQLite are probably in the same variation as SQL. Note that the inventor pronounces it the first way but in his accent (Estuary English) makes a glottal stop out of the …
Pronouncing acronyms - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Jun 10, 2011 · I find that I say "see-quel" (SQL) but "U-R-L"; others do the opposite. Sometimes an acronym gets promoted into the language as a word (nobody spells out RADAR any more), but other …
How to pronounce the programmer's abbreviation "char"
Mar 5, 2012 · That is, if you say /kær/ as an independent word it is a violation of the normal phonotactic constraints of spoken English. Furthermore, it is a completely non-obvious pronunciation if you don’t …
prepositions - What does 'against' mean in the phrase 'Execute against ...
Dec 8, 2017 · Towards doesn't really work for me, either. SQL queries can be used to set up, define the structure of, create records in, retrieve data from, change records in, delete records from and drop …