I know that does not solve the problem, but I find amazing that it is so hard to open a "read-only" connection to a sql database. At least in Sql Server we need

I know that does not solve the problem, but I find amazing that it is so hard to open a "read-only" connection to a sql database. At least in Sql Server we need to create a User with specific rights in order to do it, and even so it is not perfect.