What is a cited answer?
A cited answer is a result that links every number, fact and figure back to the exact source rows it came from, so you can verify it instead of trusting a black box. In iDBQuery, every answer to a plain-language question carries these citations automatically.
When you ask iDBQuery a question, it doesn't just hand you a number — it shows the receipts. A cited answer attaches, to each figure in the response, a trace back to the specific source: the table, the rows, and the source system the value was drawn from.
This matters because it turns an AI answer from something you have to take on faith into something you can audit. If a board report says revenue grew 14%, you can click through to see exactly which records produced that figure and confirm nothing was hallucinated or quietly dropped.
In practice, citations let you:
- Verify before you act — open the underlying rows the moment a number looks surprising.
- Reconcile disagreements — see precisely which source each value came from when two systems conflict.
- Defend a report — answer "where did this come from?" instantly in an exec or audit setting.
Because iDBQuery writes real queries against your actual data and records exactly which rows each result touched, the citation isn't a guess about provenance — it's the literal lineage of the answer. That's the difference between a confident-sounding chatbot and a tool you can put numbers from in front of a board.
Updated 2026-06-22