diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
index 3a6751a0f7..292d0037a9 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/QueryEditor.vue
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { extractIdentifierAt, isSqlKeyword, matchTable } from "@/lib/sqlNavigati
 import { lineColumnToOffset, parseSqlErrorLocation } from "@/lib/sqlDiagnostics";
 import {
   DBX_TABLE_REFERENCE_MIME,
+  hasTableReferencePayloadType,
   parseTableReferencePayload,
   tableReferenceInsertText,
 } from "@/lib/queryEditorTableDrop";
@@ -725,6 +726,10 @@ function droppedTableReference(event: DragEvent) {
   return parseTableReferencePayload(event.dataTransfer?.getData(DBX_TABLE_REFERENCE_MIME));
 }
 
+function hasDroppedTableReference(event: DragEvent) {
+  return hasTableReferencePayloadType(event.dataTransfer?.types);
+}
+
 function insertDroppedTableReference(currentView: EditorViewType, event: DragEvent): boolean {
   if (props.readOnly) return false;
   const payload = droppedTableReference(event);
@@ -1283,7 +1288,7 @@ onMounted(async () => {
       ),
       EditorView.domEventHandlers({
         dragover(event) {
-          if (props.readOnly || !droppedTableReference(event)) return false;
+          if (props.readOnly || !hasDroppedTableReference(event)) return false;
           event.preventDefault();
           if (event.dataTransfer) event.dataTransfer.dropEffect = "copy";
           return true;
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/queryEditorTableDrop.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/queryEditorTableDrop.ts
index 7376722cf2..ca9889baa7 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/queryEditorTableDrop.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/queryEditorTableDrop.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ export function parseTableReferencePayload(value: string | undefined | null): Qu
   }
 }
 
+export function hasTableReferencePayloadType(types: Iterable<string> | undefined | null): boolean {
+  if (!types) return false;
+  for (const type of types) {
+    if (type === DBX_TABLE_REFERENCE_MIME) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 export function tableReferenceInsertText(
   payload: QueryEditorTableReferencePayload,
   fallbackDatabaseType?: DatabaseType,
diff --git a/packages/app-tests/queryEditorTableDrop.test.ts b/packages/app-tests/queryEditorTableDrop.test.ts
index 68e1cabdc0..d0cab91544 100644
--- a/packages/app-tests/queryEditorTableDrop.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app-tests/queryEditorTableDrop.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { strict as assert } from "node:assert";
 import test from "node:test";
 import {
+  DBX_TABLE_REFERENCE_MIME,
   createTableReferencePayload,
+  hasTableReferencePayloadType,
   parseTableReferencePayload,
   serializeTableReferencePayload,
   tableReferenceInsertText,
@@ -41,6 +43,12 @@ test("round trips table drag payload and rejects unrelated data", () => {
   assert.equal(parseTableReferencePayload(JSON.stringify({ kind: "dbx-table-reference", tableName: "orders" })), null);
 });
 
+test("detects table drag payload type without reading drag data", () => {
+  assert.equal(hasTableReferencePayloadType(undefined), false);
+  assert.equal(hasTableReferencePayloadType(["text/plain"]), false);
+  assert.equal(hasTableReferencePayloadType(["text/plain", DBX_TABLE_REFERENCE_MIME]), true);
+});
+
 test("formats dropped table reference for the source database type", () => {
   assert.equal(
     tableReferenceInsertText({