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Let’s Build a Text-to-SQL Project Using LLM

5 min readJun 9, 2026

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If you have ever written SQL queries or know how they work, you very well know that writing SQL isn’t always the best use of time, especially when you just want a quick answer from your data.

Well, the idea of querying databases in natural language has been around for a while, but the early iterations have been slow and prone to giving completely wrong answers.

So I wanted to see if I could build a modern, agentic Text-to-SQL pipeline that was fast, accurate, and most importantly, self-evaluative.

The goal is simple. Type a question in plain English and get a clean data table and the raw SQL query back in milliseconds. To make things interesting, I built the system around a local Formula 1 database tracking drivers, teams, and race results.

I will discuss how I built it and how the architecture works, and I will also provide the GitHub link to the entire codebase.

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I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. To achieve the performance and usability goals, I decided to select a…

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Shreyas Naphad
Shreyas Naphad

Written by Shreyas Naphad

I’m an AI Engineer and content writer who loves storytelling. I write about AI, ML, tech, and productivity. I’m always keen to write stories worth reading.

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