---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
pretty_name: BIRD-dev (text-to-SQL)
tags:
  - text-to-sql
  - bird
---

# BIRD-dev (SQLite databases + dev split)

A re-host of the **BIRD** (BIg Bench for laRge-scale Database grounded text-to-SQL) **dev** bundle,
packaged as the canonical `dev.zip` so it can be pinned by commit SHA and verified by checksum.

- **Contents:** `dev.json` (1534 examples: question / `evidence` / gold `SQL` / db_id),
  `dev_tables.json` (schemas), and `dev_databases.zip` (the SQLite databases,
  `dev_databases/<db_id>/<db_id>.sqlite`).
- **Provenance:** the official BIRD `dev.zip` (2024-06-27 release) from
  <https://bird-bench.github.io/>.
- **Integrity:** `dev.zip` SHA256 =
  `cdd6d19faeb45a23970b98d3ef6c40a87987c95459c2cf12076897a60cf5a630`.

## License & attribution

BIRD is released under **CC-BY-NC-4.0** (non-commercial); this re-host keeps the same license.
Please cite the original work:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{li2023can,
  title  = {Can {LLM} Already Serve as a Database Interface? A {BI}g Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-{SQL}s},
  author = {Li, Jinyang and Hui, Binyuan and Qu, Ge and others},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS},
  year   = {2023}
}
```

Used by [`text2sql-rlvr`](https://github.com/adamthuvesen/text2sql-rlvr) as the BIRD-dev execution
substrate (the headline benchmark).