Do You Need An AI Assistant?



 Artificial Intelligence has been over hyped the last several years. But one of the bright, shining spots for AI is acting as an assistant. a super-powerful IDE, when working with a database.

Example

You want to find your top three customers in the Sakila database. This database has been used for decades in the MySQL world.

As your question in English (or another language)

The '@ai' directs the rest of the prompt to the DBeaver Artificial Intelligence Assistant


See the generated SQL

Here is the generated Structured Query Language


And get the results.

Now we have the top three customers without having to write any SQL directly

Fixing Mistakes

Occasionally, you may 'fat finger' a query.  I will take the query from above and change first_name to just first.  

SELECT

c.customer_id,

c.first,

c.last_name,

SUM(p.amount) AS total_revenue

FROM

customer AS c

JOIN

payment AS p ON c.customer_id = p.customer_id

GROUP BY

c.customer_id, c.first_name, c.last_name

ORDER BY

total_revenue DESC

LIMIT 3;


When I attempt to execute the query, it fails.



SQL Error [1054] [42S22]: Unknown column 'c.first' in 'field list'


Thankfully, the DBeaver AI assistant has a button for such cases.



Selecting AI Explain and Fix asks for help.


The error message indicates that there is no column named 'first' in the 'customer' table. Looking at your query, it seems like you might have made a typo. The 'customer' table has a column named 'first_name', not 'first'.

An AI Assistant can be a tremendous aid when you are working with MySQL. 











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