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SQLBarber: A System Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Customized and Realistic SQL Workloads
Summary: SQLBarber uses LLMs to synthesize realistic, customizable SQL workloads from natural-language constraints, avoiding hand-written templates. It couples self-correcting template generation with Bayesian cost targeting to match production-derived cardinality/plan-cost distributions and scales to large benchmark synthesis.
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h0393498bbd9d37a5
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2026
Pagerank
5.1712291e-05
Overall Rank
9,463 | 36.40%
DOI
10.1145/3786699
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@inproceedings{lao_sigmod26,
title = {{SQLBarber: A System Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Customized and Realistic SQL Workloads}},
author = {Lao, Jiale and Trummer, Immanuel},
series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3786699},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786699},
year = {2026}
}
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