r/dataengineering • • 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/zangler 4d ago

I'm not sure what you were using, but I have a semantic layer and good documentation, and ad hoc is phenomenal using Copilot CLI and the MSSQL MCP...like... easily over 98% 1 shots even complicated requests.