Question

A developer wants Copilot Chat to generate SQL migration scripts that follow a very specific in-house style: uppercase keywords, snake_case identifiers, and a mandatory rollback section at the bottom of each file. They have written a clear natural-language instruction describing all three rules, but Copilot's output keeps varying — sometimes it omits the rollback section and sometimes it lowercases keywords. Which change to their prompting approach is MOST likely to produce consistent, correctly formatted output?

Accepted Answer

Add one or two complete example migration files (input request plus the exact desired output) to the prompt so Copilot can pattern-match the format.

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Repeat the same natural-language instruction three times in the prompt to reinforce the rules through emphasis.

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Increase the length of the natural-language description by adding more adjectives describing how important each rule is.

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Ask Copilot to lower its temperature setting so the model becomes more deterministic about the formatting.