Ask Once, Query Right: Why Enterprise AI Still Gets Databases Wrong
Database. That is where many enterprise AI demos quietly go to die. The user asks one clean natural-language question: “How many customers are in California?” The AI assistant smiles politely, searches something, finds a table that looks relevant, and returns a confident answer. The problem is not that the model cannot understand English. The problem is that five internal databases may all contain customers, states, locations, stores, loans, accounts, or sales regions. Some can answer the question. Some can almost answer it. Some merely smell like they can answer it. ...