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jackstow
Posting Yak Master

160 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 04:25:16
Just wondering - do you guys say "S-Q-L" or "sequel" - I've heard vehement arguments for both.


Wanderer
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1168 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 05:38:08
Personally, I refer to "Sequel" Server, but the S-Q-L language.

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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!

4970 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 05:45:01
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.
S.Q.L.


Damian
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davidpardoe
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

324 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 05:45:07
I have to say I used to be an S-Q-L advocate having started using Oracle databases rather than SQL Server. As soon as I started using SQL Server I seem to have migrated to Sequel - it must be another "We're Microsoft and we're going to change the way the world works" thing!

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Arnold Fribble
Yak-finder General

1961 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 06:11:15
zero-based


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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!

4970 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 06:43:25
quote:

zero-based






NR would be proud of that post

Damian
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Nazim
A custom title

1408 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 07:54:50
and Setbasedisthetruepath too

the guys posts are up to the Mark , and at times damn cool , surely the guy Rocks .

and am not saying any names


Coming to jackstow question, Personally i dont mind using both the terms.


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Edited by - Nazim on 03/20/2002 07:56:32
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AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master

3246 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 12:19:15
quote:
the guys posts are up to the Mark


Did somebody call me?

Oh well, as long as I'm here... I've been a Sequel guy most of my SQL life, especially when talking about Sequel Server. Then I was online reading about mySQL, where they adamantly proclaim that it is "my ess que ell" and the pretty much hardened me to forevermore using sequel.

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Jay99

468 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 12:31:54
sea-quell when refering to the Microsoft Product . . .

Dee-eM-eL when refering to any ess-que-el code that modifies data
Dee-Dee-eL when refering to any ess-que-el code that defines data

(clients think you are really smart when you right a proc using DML rather than just plain old SQL . . .)

Jay
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 12:54:15
quote:
(clients think you are really smart when you right a proc using DML rather than just plain old SQL . . .)


Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Can I make fun of Jay's spelling????

"Right" a proc, as in, "make corrections to a badly written proc"?

Or, "Write" a proc that they don't currently have but really would like to?

Sorry Jay, couldn't resist

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setbasedisthetruepath
Used SQL Salesman

992 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 13:02:43
thanks for the kind words nazim

and sequel!

setBasedIsTheTruepath
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Jay99

468 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 13:06:03
quote:

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Can I make fun of Jay's spelling????




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Jay
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 13:17:46
Jay, all you had to do was say, "Yeah Rob, you wouldn't believe how many really screwed up procs I had to fix! Most of these idiots wrote them based on advice you gave on SQL Team!"



Edited by - robvolk on 03/20/2002 13:18:40
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Doug G
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

331 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 14:15:11
The answer is here

http://info-it.umsystem.edu/oracle/svslr/svslr.2.0013.html


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AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master

3246 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 14:44:24
quote:

The answer is here

http://info-it.umsystem.edu/oracle/svslr/svslr.2.0013.html


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Doug G
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Sorry, Doub, but I don't trust anything with the word oracle in the URL.

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nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 22:09:34
Is this site pronounced SequelTeam then?

Hmmm - I was looking for a name for my new site.

It comes from Structured English Query Language and was Sequel (but that was IBM) then shortened to SQL.

I prefer the letters (I've come across another language called sequel but a long time ago) and there are a lot of companies called Sequel.

Might have been worse - we could be writing Square.

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rrb
SQLTeam Poet Laureate

1479 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 23:11:15
has to be SQL cos TLAs are the OWTG. BTW we used to call it Sequel at Uni - that was in 1990. That was back when I was getting my BSC.

PS - How embarrased do I have to be if I bring up my 250 posts in the Yak Corral????

Edited by - rrb on 03/20/2002 23:13:52
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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!

4970 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 23:23:41
If Byrmol gets his way we all will be using

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So there will be no confusion

Nothing wrong with posting here rrb, especially since you live in the land of Coopers! Beer threads are always good.

Damian
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rrb
SQLTeam Poet Laureate

1479 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 23:32:33
Since we're at it - do you say "beer" or do you say

"B-E-E-R!"
burp

(PS - we need a "drunk" smiley....) was as close as I could get

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I hope that when I die someone will say of me "That guy sure owed me a lot of money"
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rrb
SQLTeam Poet Laureate

1479 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 23:34:08
Oh and PS - I don't know what you easterners get up to , but I don't like threads in my beer.....

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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!

4970 Posts

Posted - 2002-03-20 : 23:38:12
Sediment yes, thread no


gotcha

Damian
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