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Re:Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year by lkbm on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:16PM (#11070143)
So, on top of this, they have since decided SQL is no longer Structured Query Language--it's just SQL.
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Re:Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year by greggyb on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:16PM (#11070732)
Who's that? ANSI or ISO or someone else?

I skimmed the Wikipedia article and didn't notice any mention of removing the initialism. I did find a note that the original language standard did define the "es queue el" pronunciation, but since no one is standards compliant anyway, I think I'll still stick with "sequel" (:

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Re:Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year by lkbm on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:17PM (#11084885)
I actually can't find a source. My professor told me back in the day, and that's all I have.

The talk page on Wikipedia has a lot of discussion, including a citation of a book, but I don't have the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ASQL#SQL_Acronym

Someone there also keeps saying that the second reference on the article explicitly says it's not an acronym, but the current second source explicitly says it is, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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