What is the difference between sequel and SQL?

Question

I want to clarify the difference between a sequel and SQL? Does anyone know the difference between the two?

Answer 1

in the early 1970s. It was originally called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language) and was based on the original language SQUARE (specifying queries as relational expressions) .SEQUEL was later renamed to SQL, dropping vowels because SEQUEL was a trademark registered by Hawker Siddeley, an airline.

Answer 2

They are the same.

From Wikipedia :

SQL (/ ɛs kjuː ɛl / "SQL" [4]; Structured Query Language [5] [6] [7] [8]) is a special programming language designed to manage data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

Some people pronounce it “SQL”, while others pronounce it “sequel”.

More on the pronunciation of this term:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/how-is-sql-pronounced

http://patorjk.com/blog/2012/01/26/pronouncing-sql-sql-or-sequel/

Answer 3

I spent some time studying this old problem, because it arose again in my company. As John Woo said, this is a matter of pronunciation, not spelling. SQL is pronounced "continued" by many, and there is some history, except for a simple attempt to make an abbreviation from initialism. (NASA is an abbreviation; IBM is initialism).

But in writing, the best and most consistent way to access SQL Server or SQL databases, etc. is "SQL" --which, in which the article "an" is based on the initial letter "S". Both IBM and Microsoft style guides agree on "SQL" in writing, even if it may be declared a "continuation" in some contexts.

Our company has been embarrassed by this issue for several years because a Google search shows a much wider use of "... SQL" in English hits. We also relied heavily on Microsoft's Style Guide, and their "rule" was easily misinterpreted. They updated it for the 4th edition - see pages 387-388. SO: In the conversation, do what you want, if you understand that the “continuation” works in English chat, but not necessarily for people whose mother tongue is not English. In writing, this is SQL, and the article is "an".