AI agent · SQL · Internal tool · 2025–present
AI SQL Troubleshooter
An AI tool that reviews thousands of lines of SQL and proposes fixes in minutes.
Builder & owner, directed with AI
- Minutes
- to review thousands of lines of SQL
- Anyone
- on the team can ship a fix, not just experts
Built for a business-intelligence team, this AI-assisted tool reads large SQL codebases, flags likely errors, and writes corrections with plain-language explanations. It lowers the expertise a fix requires from expert to confident, so the work stops piling up on a few people.
Problem
Debugging long, unfamiliar SQL is slow, and it lands on a handful of people who know the codebase. Everyone else waits on them, so every broken query became a queue behind two or three experts. The bottleneck was not the SQL. It was that only a few people could safely touch it.
Approach
I wanted to widen the door without lowering the standard. The tool had to do more than spot a problem. It had to explain the fix clearly enough that a non-expert could apply it and trust the result.
So I built an AI-assisted reviewer that reads thousands of lines of SQL, points to the likely errors, and proposes concrete corrections with the reasoning attached. The reasoning is the point: a fix you cannot understand is one you cannot ship with confidence.
What I built
A reviewer that ingests a large SQL codebase, surfaces the probable errors, and returns specific corrections alongside an explanation of what was wrong and why the change fixes it. I built it for the team's real codebases and keep refining it against the cases that come up in practice, so the output stays useful rather than theoretical.
Key decisions & trade-offs
I built it around explanation, not just detection. Flagging an error is easy; the value is in returning a correction a non-expert can read, understand, and apply safely. Every choice about how results are presented followed from that bar.
Outcomes
- Reviews thousands of lines of SQL and returns corrections in minutes.
- Moved a key bottleneck off a few experts: a confident non-expert can now ship a fix safely.
Built with LLM platforms · SQL
Scope Internal tool · AI-assisted development