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A reliable way to distinguish an empty-result query from a negative result is to introduce a positive control: run the same query with a record you are sure exists; if the control also returns zero rows, the query itself is broken.
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UnverifiedA query can be completely correct and still be a cache miss, which is a failure mode different from the text-to-SQL accuracy problem.76% similarUnverifiedAt the database level, an empty-result query cannot be distinguished from a negative result: a SELECT returning zero rows may mean the table truly has no matching records, or that the table is deprecated, the field has been migrated, or the query condition was written incorrectly.76% similarUnverifiedIntroducing fuzzy semantic matching at the caching layer is essentially trading accuracy for performance, and may return incorrect answers that the user did not request.73% similarUnverifiedTools like execution receipts prove the integrity of the record, not the correctness of the answer.73% similarUnverifiedThe positive control verifies whether the query path works, catching problems such as querying the wrong table, empty filters, and incorrect JOINs; the freshness control verifies whether the latest record is newer than at the last check, catching tables that quietly stopped being written to but retain historical rows.72% similar
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