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Letting an AI assistant read SQL Server without letting it write

The problem The request sounds simple: let an AI assistant answer questions from a company's on-premises SQL Server. The hard part is what the assistant must not be able to do.

  • AI assistant can query SQL Server without write access
  • MCP server with three tools: listtables, describetable, runquery
  • Server logs tamper-evident audit trail of each query

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