Text-to-SQL – IWENAI

Text-to-SQL Benchmarks Are Lying to You

📅 July 23, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Text-to-SQL benchmarks report 90%+ accuracy, but they test against clean, documented, synthetic schemas. Real-world databases are 20-year-old swamps of undocumented logic, zombie columns, and tribal knowledge no benchmark models. The real bottleneck isn’t SQL generation — it’s two decades of neglected data governance that AI exposes rather than fixes.

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