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title: "Cloud SQL Basics - Air Market"
description: "You need a relational database - MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server - and you would rather not run the server yourself. This creates the instance and the database for you, and explains what you end up…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/cloud-sql-basics"
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[Air Market](/) / [IT & Ops](/category/ops) / Cloud SQL Basics

Skill by [Google](/@google)

# Cloud SQL Basics

Stand up a managed MySQL, Postgres, or SQL Server database

## What this does

You need a relational database - MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server - and you would rather not run the server yourself. This creates the instance and the database for you, and explains what you end up with. Reach for it when you are setting up a database for an app rather than querying one you already have.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Create a Cloud SQL instance
- Create a database on it
- Explain what a Cloud SQL resource actually is

## Information

**Cloud SQL Basics at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Google](/@google) |
| Category | [IT & Ops](/category/ops) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 41 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [google/skills](https://github.com/google/skills/tree/d1c9be2009ba0b9243f4ace63533684cabe0dc05/skills/cloud/cloud-sql-basics) |
| GitHub stars | 18,649 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 15,790, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Cloud SQL Basics and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Cloud SQL Basics's check was run against**

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| Commit | d1c9be2009ba0b9243f4ace63533684cabe0dc05 |
| Content hash | 9d2a6d682a4b1c2ac130715fd47d8b8d131976964b4056f07f70e947147b9d0a |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/google/skills/blob/d1c9be2009ba0b9243f4ace63533684cabe0dc05/skills/cloud/cloud-sql-basics/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Cloud SQL Basics](/security/cloud-sql-basics)

## About Cloud SQL Basics

This creates or explains Cloud SQL resources. Use it when you want a Cloud SQL instance or a database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server.

Cloud SQL manages those third-party engines as resources of its own. Create an open-source MySQL instance, for example, and what you get is a Cloud SQL for MySQL instance that Google Cloud manages on your behalf.

For relational database workloads, that management covers backups, high availability, and secure connectivity.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/cli-usage.md - reference
- references/client-library-usage.md - reference
- references/core-concepts.md - reference
- references/dr-backups.md - reference
- references/iac-usage.md - reference
- references/iam-security.md - reference
- references/mcp-usage.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Cloud SQL Basics safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Cloud SQL Basics and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit d1c9be2009ba, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/cloud-sql-basics.

### How do I install Cloud SQL Basics?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/cloud-sql-basics on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/google/skills/tree/d1c9be2009ba0b9243f4ace63533684cabe0dc05/skills/cloud/cloud-sql-basics. Install from that link, not the branch.

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