Your AI agent needs data. Here's how to feed it without RAG.
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Your AI agent is smart. It can write code, plan projects, debug errors. But ask it about your data - "how many orders did we get yesterday?" - and it falls apart. The usual fix is RAG: chunk your data, embed it, stuff it into a vector, pray the retrieval finds the right rows. It works 60% of the time. The other 40%, the agent hallucinates numbers, mixes up customers, invents trends that don't exist. Here's the thing: your data is already in a database. In tables. With schemas. SQL exists.