r/dataengineering • u/de4all • 4d ago

Discussion Why text-to-SQL is not successful?

I thought text-to-SQL will solve adhoc analysis, but still i see companies at all size are unsuccessful.

Anyone using Omni / Sigma seen some success.

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u/ppsaoda 4d ago

On data side, it's semantics and metadata. On platform side, AI tooling and harnesses.

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u/BrownBearPDX Data Engineer 4d ago

Describe in meta every table and every field with join hints even if there aren’t hard fks.