Timeline for "An SQL Server database schema" or "a SQL Server database schema"?
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| Nov 14, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | tgogos |
Google Books Ngram Viewer result here shows a SQL as more frequent.
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| Apr 1, 2017 at 2:25 | comment | added | Oskar Austegard | Maybe not a corpus, but as a way to determine what is common usage, google trends certainly would argue for "a SQL": trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22a%20sql%22,%22an%20sql%22 | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 0:07 | comment | added | user28567 | Either way, Google Search doesn't work very well as a corpus. Google has never tried to make its result estimates particularly accurate. | |
| Jul 26, 2015 at 3:15 | comment | added | Jacinda | The link to the "Google fight" these days shows many more hits for "a SQL" than "an SQL." | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 22:44 | comment | added | Dolph | You can also pronounce it "SQUEAL," if you're a nincompoop like me. | |
| Aug 10, 2011 at 16:18 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | @Hai Minh Nguyen: I think there was a very early SQL product actually named "SEQUEL" and some people just use that for pronouncing SQL. | |
| Nov 19, 2010 at 10:05 | comment | added | Hai Minh Nguyen | I never knew SQL can be pronounced as "sequel". | |
| Nov 19, 2010 at 10:05 | vote | accept | Hai Minh Nguyen | ||
| Nov 19, 2010 at 9:10 | history | answered | Joe Kearney | CC BY-SA 2.5 |