There's a third article besides "a" and "an". So in order to solve the problem, we need only to ensure that there is only one SQL parser, so that we can refer t

There's a third article besides "a" and "an". So in order to solve the problem, we need only to ensure that there is only one SQL parser, so that we can refer to it as "the SQL parser". (also, I'm in the opposite superstate to the one you are in -- both "a SQL parser" and "an SQL parser" look fine to me, although I internally pronounce the first as "a seekwul parser" and the second as "an ess cue ell parser")