Summary

The article discusses the advancements in text-to-SQL capabilities using Google's Gemini models, which allow users to generate SQL queries from natural language prompts. It highlights the challenges faced in understanding user intent, providing business-specific context, and the limitations of large language models in generating precise SQL. Various techniques to improve text-to-SQL performance are explored, including intelligent retrieval of data, disambiguation methods, and validation processes. The article serves as an introduction to a series on enhancing text-to-SQL solutions within Google Cloud products.

💭 Your Thoughts

Not sure for the "Self-consistency" method, but i think in most of the use cases, the client don't really need a "state of art" level solution, but need a solution can handle 90% of cases accurately. The business context maybe is the most easy to provide and key factor for the quality of SQL generation.

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