Working with SQL

Pipedream makes it easy to interact with SQL databases within your workflows. You can securely connect to your database and use either pre-built no-code triggers and actions to interact with your database, or execute custom SQL queries.

SQL Editor

With the built-in SQL editor, you access linting and auto-complete features typical of modern SQL editors.

Schema Explorer

When querying a database, you need to understand the schema of the tables you're working with. The schema explorer provides a visual interface to explore the tables in your database, view their columns, and understand the relationships between them.

• Once you connect your account with one of the supported database apps, we automatically fetch and display the details of the database schema below
• You can view the columns of a table, their data types, and relationships between tables
• You can also search and filter the set of tables that are listed in your schema based on table or column name

Prepared Statements

Prepared statements let you safely execute SQL queries with dynamic inputs that are automatically defined as parameters, in order to help prevent SQL injection attacks.

To reference dynamic data in a SQL query, simply use the standard {{ }} notation just like any other code step in Pipedream. For example,

SELECT *
  FROM products
  WHERE type = {{steps.get_product_info.$return_value}}

Below your query input, you can toggle between the computed and prepared statements:

Getting Started

Supported Databases

The SQL editor, schema explorer, and support for prepared statements are currently supported for these datbase apps:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake

Need to query a different database type? Let us know!