How to Connect Oracle Database to Cursor — via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Oracle Database, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Oracle Database + Cursor

Query an Oracle database directly: list tables, describe columns and run read-only SQL. Installs read-only; credentials are held encrypted rather than in the connection string.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

ORACLE_HOST, ORACLE_PORT, ORACLE_DATABASE, ORACLE_USER, ORACLE_PASSWORD

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setup

1. Create a user with only CREATE SESSION and the SELECTs it needs:

   CREATE USER amcp_reader IDENTIFIED BY "change-me";
   GRANT CREATE SESSION TO amcp_reader;
   GRANT SELECT ON sales.orders TO amcp_reader;
   -- or, for a whole schema, a read-only role you maintain
   

2. Set ORACLE_HOST, ORACLE_PORT (1521), ORACLE_DATABASE — the service name (e.g. ORCLPDB1), not the SID — plus ORACLE_USER and ORACLE_PASSWORD.

The node-oracledb driver needs to be in thin mode or have Instant Client available. Thin mode covers Oracle 12.1 and newer with no client install; an older server needs Instant Client on the AnythingMCP host.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Cursor

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
2. Save the file and restart Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP to verify Oracle Database is listed and "Connected".
4. Start chatting — all Oracle Database tools are now invokable.

Available tools

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
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