Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...
AOL

Demystifying structured data: How to speak an LLM’s native language

Large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally changed what it means to be found online. These systems do not read content the way a person does, nor do they rank pages the way traditional search ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...
IEEE

CCS-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL Framework for Computational Queries via Large Language Models

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task is to convert natural language queries into Structured Query Language (SQL) to achieve a natural language interface for database queries. The current research on Text-to ...
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Development and Assessment of a Pipeline for Extracting Structured Data From Free-Text Medical Reports Using a Large Language Model

Medical free texts such as pathology reports contain valuable clinical data but are challenging to structure at scale. Traditional natural language processing approaches require extensive annotated ...
IEEE

A View-Oriented Skeleton Generation Method for Improving Multi-Table Text-to-SQL Translation Accuracy

Abstract: Recently, research on natural language to structured query (Text-to-SQL) has advanced rapidly, aiming to enable models to automatically translate natural language queries into executable SQL ...
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Power Query Isn’t Required: New Excel Functions Handle Straightforward Sources Cleanly

Have you ever felt like importing data into Excel is more complicated than it needs to be? Below My Online Training Hub walks through how Microsoft’s latest Excel functions, `IMPORTCSV` and ...
InfoWorld

Google tests BigQuery feature to generate SQL queries from English

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...
TDAN

Democratizing Data with Text-to-SQL: How Natural Language Is Unlocking Enterprise Intelligence

In most enterprises, data access still feels like a locked room with SQL as the only key. Business teams depend on data engineers for every report, dashboard, or metric tweak. Even in the age of ...