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OK, so what does SQL stand for? There's no help from Chris Date (in "A Guide to the SQL Standard" and in "An Introduction to Database Systems" he says that it is pronounced "esskuel" and that it used to stand for Structured Query Language). Is it a TLA (three letter acronym) which stands for nothing? How ironic. Yours, John F Schlesinger SysCore Solutions 212 619 5200 x 219 917 886 5895 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of KenNorth Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:18 PM To: Pablo Montilla; Enrico Lelina; xml-dev@x... Subject: sequel=> SQL, SGML=> XML > SQL it's pronounced 'Sequel' so, it must be "a sequel command" Pablo, That is popular usage, but it's incorrect. The 'sequel' pronunciation is a carryover from when there was actually a SEQUEL language. That was in the era before SQL became an international standard. For clarification, we can go right to the people who wrote the SQL standard. Jim Melton, editor of the ISO SQL-92 standard, covered this in his book _Understanding the New SQL_ (Morgan Kaufmann): "1.2 What is SQL? SQL (correctly pronounced "ess cue ell," instead of the somewhat common "sequel"), is a data sublanguage ..." He also explains 'Structured Query Language' is archaic: "Many books and article "define" SQL by parenthetically claiming the letters stand for Structured Query Language. While this was true for the original prototypes, it is not true of the standard..." 'Structured Query Language' and 'sequel' are pre-cursors to today's SQL standard, just as SGML is a pre-cursor to XML. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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