MCP server overview

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI applications and agents connect to outside data sources. MCP servers can be local or remote. Local MCP servers typically run on your local machine and use the standard input and output streams (stdio) for communication between services on the same device. Remote MCP servers run on the service's infrastructure and offer an HTTP endpoint to AI applications for communication between the AI MCP client and the MCP server.

For more information, see MCP architecture.

Cloud SQL for SQL Server supports two remote servers for usage with MCP:

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Last updated 2026年08月28日 UTC.