“The official way to pronounce “MySQL†is “My Ess Que Ell†(not “my sequelâ€), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel†or in some other localized way.”
He who owns it decides how to call it.
HA! It’s a regional thang! gee. In the 90’s when I went to Oracle user groups the pronunciation of SQL was either S-Q-L or Sequel. It kinda depended on where folks were from. In the bay area everyone I met use Sequel. I still use sequel even tho most of you guys roll yr eyes at me & go it’s pronounced MY-S-Q-L! Now I think I just do it to annoy you all! :)
I thought it was pronounced o-rick-le-my-sequel-but-we-want-you-to-buy-our-bigger-rdbms ?
Don’t worry, there is a session on “Migrating from Oracle to MySQL” at the conference. Not from an Oracle employee though.
Yes, but according to the manual page, it doesn’t actually matter. From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/what-is-mysql.html:
“The official way to pronounce “MySQL†is “My Ess Que Ell†(not “my sequelâ€), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel†or in some other localized way.”
He who owns it decides how to call it.
HA! It’s a regional thang! gee. In the 90’s when I went to Oracle user groups the pronunciation of SQL was either S-Q-L or Sequel. It kinda depended on where folks were from. In the bay area everyone I met use Sequel. I still use sequel even tho most of you guys roll yr eyes at me & go it’s pronounced MY-S-Q-L! Now I think I just do it to annoy you all! :)