--- title: Snowflake – “Beyond SQL Generation”: Teaching AI Agents... description: AI agents can write syntactically correct SQL but fail in production because they lack domain knowledge about what database columns, tables, and business logic... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/snowflake-beyond-sql-generation-teaching-ai-agents-what-your-database-really-means-6wwxcyczz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Snowflake – “Beyond SQL Generation”: Teaching AI Agents What Your Database Really Means | daily.dev og:description: AI agents can write syntactically correct SQL but fail in production because they lack domain knowledge about what database columns, tables, and business logic... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/snowflake-beyond-sql-generation-teaching-ai-agents-what-your-database-really-means-6wwxcyczz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6wWXcyCzZ.png og:image:alt: Snowflake – “Beyond SQL Generation”: Teaching AI Agents What Your Database Really Means og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Snowflake – “Beyond SQL Generation”: Teaching AI Agents What Your Database Really Means **[Codemotion](https://daily.dev/sources/codemotion)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents can write syntactically correct SQL but fail in production because they lack domain knowledge about what database columns, tables, and business logic actually mean. The solution is a semantic model — a structured file encoding tacit domain knowledge such as table relationships, column meanings, deprecated fields, and valid query patterns. This approach, to be demonstrated by Kris Jenkins (Lead Developer Advocate at Snowflake) at Codemotion Rome 2026, aims to build reliable AI database analysts from day one rather than through months of prompt engineering and fixes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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