# SQL Server and Volty > Volty answers your team's questions from SQL Server with read-only queries on the tables an admin picks. Volty answers colleagues' and automations' questions from your own SQL Server database, through a read-only login and only the tables an admin picks. Talk to Volty · Free trial Updated 2 Nov 2026 ## A warranty question A customer asks something only the database holds. Volty brings in a colleague, who asks Volty from the staff side. DR Daniel Reyes WhatsApp · Customer Is my water heater still under warranty? Serial WH-55102. Volty Let me get a colleague to check that for you, Daniel. They will reply here shortly. Volty brought in Aisha from Service. She asked Volty from the staff side, and Volty read dbo.Warranty. Aisha Hi Daniel, your heater was installed on 14 March 2024 and the warranty runs to 13 March 2027, so you're covered. Shall I book a technician? Google Sheets dbo.Warranty · 1 row | | Serial | Model | Installed | Warranty ends | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | WH-55102 | HX-30 Storage | 14 Mar 2024 | 13 Mar 2027 | Row 2 added by Volty ## What Volty does with SQL Server Many businesses keep their orders, warranties and service history in a SQL Server database of their own. Volty connects to it through a read-only login and reads only the tables an admin picks. Colleagues and automations ask questions in plain words, and Volty answers with one read-only query, so nobody waits for IT to write a report. - Read only, by design · Volty runs one SELECT at a time, and a write or a second statement is refused. - Only the tables you pick · A query on any other table is refused. - For colleagues and automations · These tools never run in a customer conversation, so Volty brings in a colleague instead. - Totals before rows · Volty counts and sums, and an answer carries 200 rows at most. Connects with A read-only SQL Server login Volty reads The tables an admin picks Volty can change None. Writes are refused Setup A few minutes once the login exists Category Spreadsheets & databases Your own database, read through the tables an admin picks. ### Weekly totals to the team An automation runs the week's totals and posts them in Slack, when that switch is on. #sales Slack · Team Queried SQL Server · dbo.Orders · 1 SELECT · grouped by region VoltyAPP Orders last week: North 142 ($61,380), East 118 ($49,920), West 97 ($40,115). Total 357 orders, $151,415. J Jonathan Thanks. West is down again, I'll look at it with the team. ## As an automation Describe it to Volty in a sentence; it drafts the automation and an admin turns it on. Monday sales totals - When · Every Monday at 8am · A scheduled automation - Step 1 · Runs one SELECT · On the tables you picked - Step 2 · Posts the totals · In the sales channel - Step 3 · Logs the run · On the automation's runs list Colleagues ask Volty and get the figure from the database. ## How Volty connects to SQL Server An admin adds SQL Server from the Sources page with the server's address and a login that can only read, then picks the tables Volty may use. - 01 · Create a read-only login · One of its own, with db_datareader and nothing more. - 02 · Add SQL Server · Host, database, and the port or instance name. - 03 · Pick the tables · Volty lists what the login can see. ### The tools Volty gets Each one is a switch on the Sources page in Volty. - List tables · Reads - Describe tables · Reads - Run a SELECT · Reads Reading tools can be turned on straight away. Anything that changes SQL Server starts Off, and once on it can be set to check with staff, so each change waits for a colleague. ## Common questions ### Can Volty change data in my SQL Server database? No. Volty connects through a login that can only read, runs one SELECT at a time, and refuses a write, a second statement or a table that is not on the admin's list. ### Does Volty query the database in customer conversations? No. The SQL Server tools run for colleagues and automations only. When a customer asks something only the database answers, Volty brings in a colleague. ### How much does it cost to connect SQL Server with Volty? Every Volty plan includes seats, active contacts and AI credits and starts with a free 7-day trial, and the plan prices are on voltade.com/pricing. 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