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Text-to-SQL on a Real Database: Two Questions, Five-Table Joins

Two real business questions typed in plain English against a live MySQL database in DBConvert Streams — and the five-table joins text-to-SQL wrote to answer them. What it got right, and the decision it made without telling me.

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ChatGPT and Your SQL Database: Stop Pasting Schemas, Connect Them Instead

Pasting schemas into ChatGPT works for one-off queries. For real database work, connect the AI read-only to your database via MCP or in-app AI Chat.

A database MCP server should make the boundary visible: the assistant can inspect and query data, while unsafe writes are blocked by the server

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What a good database MCP server gets right

Wrapping a few queries as MCP tools is the easy weekend part. What makes a database MCP server safe to point at real data is everything around the tools: read-only by default, narrow tools, per-request scoping, and bounded results.