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The Dialect Trap: Why AI Writes SQL Your Database Refuses to Run

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You ask an AI assistant for "the 10 most recent orders." It confidently hands you this: SELECT TOP 10 * FROM orders ORDER BY created_at DESC ; Looks fine — until you run it on PostgreSQL and get syntax error at or near "10" . The logic was perfect. The dialect was wrong. TOP is SQL Server syntax; P…

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  1. 2026-09-18 01:02 · DEV Community — AI
    The Dialect Trap: Why AI Writes SQL Your Database Refuses to Run

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