Glossary · Integration

MCP Server for Databases

An MCP server for databases is a Model Context Protocol service that exposes database capabilities–listing schemas, running queries, fetching results–to AI assistants in a standardized way.

An MCP server is the adapter between an AI assistant and a database: it advertises tools like "list tables" and "execute query", the assistant calls them, and the server talks to the actual database. This lets a general-purpose assistant answer questions from your data without a bespoke integration. The serious considerations are the same as for any AI-database connection: the server's database credentials should be read-only, queries should be validated, and access should be scoped–because the MCP server holds the keys, its permissions define the worst case, not the AI's intentions.

Fig — every answer ships with the tables, rows and SQL behind it.