There is no problem to use a SQL Connection as long as you don`t do any operations in the database except for SELECT Queries, you can read the database without any problem.
The add-on must not crash because your SQLConnection. Probably there is something else crashing your add-on. Could you identify the exactly line of your code that is crashing? Could you share with us?
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