Snowflake Cortex Analyst Evaluating Text-to-SQL Accuracy for Real-World Business Intelligence Scenarios

Metadata

• Author: snowflake.com
• Full Title:: Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Evaluating Text-to-SQL Accuracy for Real-World Business Intelligence Scenarios
• Category:: 🗞️Articles
• URL:: https://www.snowflake.com/en/engineering-blog/cortex-analyst-text-to-sql-accuracy-bi/
• Read date:: 2025-03-23

Highlights

when we tested a state-of-the-art language model, GPT-4o, using our internal evaluation set, its accuracy plummeted to 51%. This significant gap between benchmark performance and real-world application reveals several limitations of traditional benchmarks. There are four main pillars that define the gap between nice 90% benchmark numbers vs. real-world BI use cases (View Highlight)