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MCP vs. a Direct Database Connection: A Security and Workflow Comparison

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Sooner or later, someone on your team wants to point an AI assistant at the production database. Maybe it's a support engineer who wants to answer "why is this customer's invoice stuck?" without writing SQL. Maybe it's you, wanting Claude or Cursor to draft a gnarly multi-join query against real ta…

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  1. 2026-08-25 07:06 · DEV Community — AI
    MCP vs. a Direct Database Connection: A Security and Workflow Comparison

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