We introduce SQL-Exchange, a framework for mapping SQL queries across different database schemas by preserving the source query structure while adapting domain-specific elements to align with the target schema. We investigate the conditions under which such mappings are feasible and beneficial, and examine their impact on enhancing the in-context learning performance of text-to-SQL systems as a downstream task. Our comprehensive evaluation across multiple model families and benchmark datasets -- assessing structural alignment with source queries, execution validity on target databases, and semantic correctness -- demonstrates that SQL-Exchange is effective across a wide range of schemas and query types. Our results further show that both in-context prompting with mapped queries and fine-tuning on mapped data consistently yield higher text-to-SQL performance than using examples drawn directly from the source schema.
@article{arxiv.2508.07087,
title = {SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains},
author = {Mohammadreza Daviran and Brian Lin and Davood Rafiei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07087},
year = {2026}
}