DB Explorer MCP Server

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DB Explorer runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 398 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Oct 2026.

Read-only SQL for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite: schema, safe SELECTs, EXPLAIN, index advice

Installs per day peak 226 · avg 13

a month agotoday

398

Installs / week

pypi · db-explorer-mcp-server

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20 Oct 2026

Last commit

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MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check DB Explorer every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add db-explorer-mcp-server -- uvx db-explorer-mcp-server

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "db-explorer-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "db-explorer-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.db-explorer-mcp-server]
command = "uvx"
args = ["db-explorer-mcp-server"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "db-explorer-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "db-explorer-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "db-explorer-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "db-explorer-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: DATABASE_URL (SQLAlchemy URL of the database to explore. Unset opens the bundled demo database).

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DB Explorer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for DB Explorer?

DB Explorer runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package db-explorer-mcp-server was installed 398 times last week.

How do I connect DB Explorer?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls db-explorer-mcp-server straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use DB Explorer?

The pypi package db-explorer-mcp-server was installed 398 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is DB Explorer open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 8 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.