By using DatabaseLink, you can get data from a database and do any number of computations on it.
After loading DatabaseLink and opening a connection, get data from a table and visualize it:
Wolfram Language code: Needs["DatabaseLink`"]Wolfram Language code: conn = OpenSQLConnection[ "publisher"];Wolfram Language code: data = SQLSelect[conn, "ROYSCHED", {"TITLE_ID", "ROYALTY"}]Wolfram Language code: ListLinePlot[Last /@ data]