NL2SQL is a solved problem... Not!

Summary: Despite LLM advances, enterprise-grade NL2SQL remains unsolved due to real-world challenges: complex schemata, ambiguity, robustness, integration, and evaluation gaps. Presents comparative lessons from two production teams and a roadmap for research, benchmarks, and responsible-AI practices. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 530
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 7.7761714e-05
Overall Rank: 2,988 | 79.22%
DOI: -

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4,535	Hybrid Querying Over Relational Databases and Large Language Models	2025	CIDR	6.1049669e-05
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5,437	SNAILS: Schema Naming Assessments for Improved LLM-Based SQL Inference	2025	SIGMOD	5.5033018e-05
5,840	Logical and Physical Optimizations for SQL Query Execution over Large Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.3042561e-05
9,032	Sphinteract: Resolving Ambiguities in NL2SQL Through User Interaction	2025	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,234	Is Long Context All You Need? Leveraging LLM's Extended Context for NL2SQL	2025	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
9,986	Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,221	NL2SQLBench: A Modular Benchmarking Framework for LLM-Enabled NL2SQL Solutions	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,620	LEAP: LLM-powered End-to-end Automatic Library for Processing Social Science Queries on Unstructured Data	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,768	SiriusBI: A Comprehensive LLM-Powered Solution for Data Analytics in Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,784	Towards Automated Cross-domain Exploratory Data Analysis through Large Language Models	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,837	Natural Language to SQL: State of the Art and Open Problems	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,844	Panel on Neural Relational Data: Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs... or both?	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020727678
567	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019966681
1,867	Interpretable Data-Based Explanations for Fairness Debugging	2022	SIGMOD	0.00010272055
2,810	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.0810163e-05

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