WHAT A GREAT VIDEO. Thanks for sharing. Everyone I work with...or worked with...that sees me work with SQLite (sequel lite to me) asks...what is that? why are using that? I love it. It is the best configuration manager.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Jay Kreibich <jay at kreibi.ch> wrote: > > > IIRC, the SQL ISO standard defines the pronunciation of the term ?SQL? as > "ess-cue-ell?, although if you trace SQL back to the IBM days of SEQUEL, > there is a strong argument that the term ?sequel? makes more sense. > > I know when the SQLite development team speaks about it, they tend to use > the term ?ess cue ell lite? (technically doubling the ?L?). > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk > > When writing the book ?Using SQLite,? I actually had a rather long > discussion with my editor about this, since the pronunciation affects the > choice of words when talking about ?an ess-cue-ell lite database? vs ?a > sequel-lite database? (?an? vs ?a?). Knowing the development team tends to > pronounce the letters, I went with ?an.? > > -j > > > > On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:38 PM, danap at dandymadeproductions.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Please grant me some leeway here since as someone who has > > not been in an academic school for years and is mainly self > > taught. I have Mainly deriving information from reading > > manuals and occasionally viewing some videos. > > > > Maybe I'm wrong, but according to Wikepedia SQLite appears > > to be pronounced the same has it is spelled, > > (ˈsiːkwəl.laɪt). > > Maybe not a long A there perhaps. > > > > Where as I first heard Microsoft's MSSQL pronounce (sequent), > > which I have also heard in academic videos by professors. > > Following that logic, SQLite, (sequent.light)? > > > > Dana Proctor > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- > Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > > > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but > showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel > uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >
