diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/newQueryContext.spec.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/newQueryContext.spec.ts
index 8c7d8368e1..fef4782f1c 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/newQueryContext.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/sql/newQueryContext.spec.ts
@@ -212,6 +212,20 @@ describe("buildSelectAllSql", () => {
     expect(buildSelectAllSql("jdbc", { schema: "APP", tableName: "USERS" }, '"', "phoenix")).toBe('SELECT * FROM "APP"."USERS"');
   });
 
+  it("scopes InfluxDB 1.x / 2.x prefill to a rolling InfluxQL window", () => {
+    // Without a time predicate the InfluxQL query would scan every shard
+    // for the measurement before LIMIT clips the tail; the 5-minute
+    // window matches the sidebar quick-open default so users can run
+    // the prefill safely.
+    expect(buildSelectAllSql("influxdb", { tableName: "cpu" })).toBe('SELECT * FROM "cpu" WHERE time > now() - 5m ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 100');
+  });
+
+  it("scopes InfluxDB 3.x prefill to a rolling DataFusion INTERVAL window", () => {
+    // v3 goes through DataFusion SQL and needs an ANSI INTERVAL literal
+    // rather than the InfluxQL Go-duration form used by v1 / v2.
+    expect(buildSelectAllSql("influxdb3", { tableName: "cpu" })).toBe(`SELECT * FROM "cpu" WHERE time > now() - INTERVAL '5 minutes' ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 100`);
+  });
+
   it("bracket-quotes a SQL Server table", () => {
     expect(buildSelectAllSql("sqlserver", { schema: "dbo", tableName: "users" })).toBe("SELECT * FROM [dbo].[users]");
     expect(buildSelectAllSql("sqlserver", { tableName: "users" })).toBe("SELECT * FROM [users]");
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/newQueryContext.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/newQueryContext.ts
index 1409be7a12..a4a0fbbdb1 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/newQueryContext.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/sql/newQueryContext.ts
@@ -147,10 +147,24 @@ export function resolveNewQueryTable(input: ResolveNewQueryTableInput): NewQuery
  * Builds a `SELECT * FROM <table>` statement for the new-query prefill, reusing
  * the same per-dialect identifier quoting and schema/catalog qualification used
  * by the table-data view.
+ *
+ * Time-series engines get the same rolling-window scoping the sidebar
+ * quick-open uses (see `default_time_series_predicate` in
+ * `crates/dbx-core/src/sql_dialect/table_select.rs`). Without a `time`
+ * predicate InfluxDB scans every shard (v1/v2) or every Parquet file
+ * (v3), which turns "let me draft a query against this table" into a
+ * full-history scan the moment the user hits Run. VictoriaMetrics
+ * already has its own metric range template above.
  */
 export function buildSelectAllSql(databaseType: DatabaseType | undefined, table: Pick<NewQueryTable, "schema" | "catalog" | "tableName"> & Partial<Pick<NewQueryTable, "database">>, identifierQuote?: string, driverProfile?: string, includeDatabaseName = false): string {
   if (databaseType === "victoriametrics") return metricRangeQuery(table.tableName);
   const ref = qualifiedTableName({ databaseType, driverProfile, identifierQuote, database: table.database, schema: table.schema, catalog: table.catalog, tableName: table.tableName, includeDatabaseName });
+  if (databaseType === "influxdb") {
+    return `SELECT * FROM ${ref} WHERE time > now() - 5m ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 100`;
+  }
+  if (databaseType === "influxdb3") {
+    return `SELECT * FROM ${ref} WHERE time > now() - INTERVAL '5 minutes' ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 100`;
+  }
   return `SELECT * FROM ${ref}`;
 }