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Lexega Turns SQL into Signals

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by beart

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Using the term "signals" was a bit confusing to me. But this looks like a SQL linting tool?
Seems like it's doing something similar to sqlfluff lint, even supporting the same dialects.
Also the GitHub link in the docs section leads to a 404.

by lmeyerov

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Interesting, a lot of this is consistent with our experience!
We've been adding linters, including semantic analysis, in various ai talk2db connectors in loiue.ai that help steer better than normal thin MCPs enable. We've been having to hand roll for making it easy for folks to use splunk, kusto, etc better, so cool to see something like this for sql - we were hoping for precisely that! Our semantic analysis is driven by what's in the DB (schema, ..) x policy controls configurable by team admins, which this does out of the box for SQL.

by mattdeboard

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Interesting note about left join in the CTE being converted into an inner join. Didn't know that

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by viraptor

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It's cool workaround for the problem that preserves the problem. An alternative is to write the query in a more reasonable language like https://prql-lang.org/ which has a representation closer to the semantic meaning and mostly avoid the big diff in the first place.

by christoff12

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by mergisi

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