--- title: 24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack description: DeepSQL is a self-hosted AI database assistant that acts as a 24/7 DBA for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It monitors query workloads, rewrites slow queries, recommends... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack | daily.dev og:description: DeepSQL is a self-hosted AI database assistant that acts as a 24/7 DBA for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It monitors query workloads, rewrites slow queries, recommends... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KVSKJvTXL.png og:image:alt: 24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DeepSQL is a self-hosted AI database assistant that acts as a 24/7 DBA for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It monitors query workloads, rewrites slow queries, recommends indexes and materialized views, and delivers BI dashboards — all within your own VPC. It integrates with Claude MCP, Codex, Cursor, and Slack, and can be installed in 15 minutes on any Linux box or container. The tool targets senior DBAs and data engineers looking to cut database costs by up to 40%. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl"},"datePublished":"2026-07-22T18:12:49.232Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:54:11.131Z","description":"DeepSQL is a self-hosted AI database assistant that acts as a 24/7 DBA for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It monitors query workloads, rewrites slow queries, recommends...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/82b8108d32cb1deaf79981f7d08a0a99?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/82b8108d32cb1deaf79981f7d08a0a99?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/24-7-dba-cut-database-costs-optimize-queries-mcp-slack-kvskjvtxl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"backend,postgresql,mysql","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack"}]} ```