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Among some the term beaver is suggestive, or even offensive. Think Thelma & Louise; "Damn! I hate that! I hate being called a beaver! Don't you?"

It's a particularly lowbrow bit of slang and not something that worried me when I recently mentioned the name dbeaver in a professional context, although I am aware of it. It pleases me that I spend my time among people that are either ignorant of this matter or are happy to pretend they are.

I'm going to guess the cross over of Thelma and Louise fans and SQL database users is probably fairly low.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaver

Every word in Urban Dictionary has at least one innuendo definition. Specially those that aren't innuendos.

courtesy of the late, great, Leslie Nielsen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4

Thanks for that. Time to add "Bad Golf My Way" to the rewatch queue, it was a favorite childhood movie of mine.

I guess a followup question for those who've been talking about this tool with colleagues, do you just casually call it "beaver" or the full "dee-beaver"? I want to call it "dee-bee beaver" but there's a missing b...