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sqlcoder-2

Available as managed deployment LLMs defog Text gen 1 variants 10k dl/mo

sqlcoder-2 is an open-weight language model from defog. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bydefog
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)6.7B
Context16k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-02-05
Popularity10k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What sqlcoder-2 is

The model weights were updated at 7 AM UTC on Feb 7, 2024. The new model weights lead to a much more performant model – particularly for joins.

If you downloaded the model before that, please redownload the weights for best performance.

Read the full model card

Model Card for SQLCoder-7B-2

A capable large language model for natural language to SQL generation.

Model Details

Model Description

This is the model card of a 🤗 transformers model that has been pushed on the Hub. This model card has been automatically generated.

  • Developed by: Defog, Inc
  • Model type: [Text to SQL]
  • License: [CC-by-SA-4.0]
  • Finetuned from model: [CodeLlama-7B]

Model Sources [optional]

Uses

This model is intended to be used by non-technical users to understand data inside their SQL databases. It is meant as an analytics tool, and not as a database admin tool.

This model has not been trained to reject malicious requests from users with write access to databases, and should only be used by users with read-only access.

How to Get Started with the Model

Use the code here to get started with the model.

Prompt

Please use the following prompt for optimal results. Please remember to use do_sample=False and num_beams=4 for optimal results.

### Task
Generate a SQL query to answer [QUESTION]{user_question}[/QUESTION]

### Database Schema
The query will run on a database with the following schema:
{table_metadata_string_DDL_statements}

### Answer
Given the database schema, here is the SQL query that [QUESTION]{user_question}[/QUESTION]
[SQL]

Evaluation

This model was evaluated on SQL-Eval, a PostgreSQL based evaluation framework developed by Defog for testing and alignment of model capabilities.

You can read more about the methodology behind SQLEval here.

Results

We classified each generated question into one of 6 categories. The table displays the percentage of questions answered correctly by each model, broken down by category.

dategroup_byorder_byratiojoinwhere
sqlcoder-70b9691.497.185.797.191.4
sqlcoder-7b-29691.494.391.494.377.1
sqlcoder-34b8094.385.777.185.780
gpt-47294.397.18091.480
gpt-4-turbo7691.491.462.888.677.1
natural-sql-7b5688.685.76088.680
sqlcoder-7b6482.974.354.374.374.3
gpt-3.57277.182.834.365.771.4
claude-25271.474.357.165.762.9

Model Card Contact

Contact us on X at @defogdata, or on email at founders@defog.ai

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys sqlcoder-2 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (sqlcoder-2 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"sqlcoder-2","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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