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Text-to-SQL — AI Glossary

Converting natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to query databases directly.

Overview

Text-to-SQL (Spider, BIRD benchmarks) requires the model to understand schema (table/column names, foreign keys), write syntactically correct SQL, and handle aggregations, joins, and subqueries. GPT-4 achieves ~85% on Spider; production deployments add schema linking, few-shot examples with domain-specific queries, and execution-feedback loops for self-correction.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is Text-to-SQL?

Converting natural language questions into executable SQL queries, enabling non-technical users to query databases directly.

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