diff --git a/src/dataconnect/errors.ts b/src/dataconnect/errors.ts
index 5f6f9666580..f14a9b8c5b5 100644
--- a/src/dataconnect/errors.ts
+++ b/src/dataconnect/errors.ts
@@ -5,28 +5,27 @@ const PRECONDITION_ERROR_TYPESTRING = "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Preconditi
 const INCOMPATIBLE_CONNECTOR_TYPE = "INCOMPATIBLE_CONNECTOR";
 
 export function getIncompatibleSchemaError(err: any): IncompatibleSqlSchemaError | undefined {
-  const original = err.context?.body?.error || err.orignal;
-  if (!original) {
-    // If we can't get the original, rethrow so we don't cover up the original error.
-    throw err;
+  const incompatibles = errorDetails(err, INCOMPATIBLE_SCHEMA_ERROR_TYPESTRING);
+  if (incompatibles.length === 0) {
+    return undefined;
   }
-  const details: any[] = original.details;
-  const incompatibles = details.filter((d) =>
-    d["@type"]?.includes(INCOMPATIBLE_SCHEMA_ERROR_TYPESTRING),
-  );
   // Should never get multiple incompatible schema errors
-  return incompatibles[0];
+  const incompatible = incompatibles[0];
+  // Extract the violation type from the precondition error detail.
+  const preconditionErrs = errorDetails(err, PRECONDITION_ERROR_TYPESTRING);
+  const violationTypes = (incompatible.violationType = preconditionErrs
+    .flatMap((preCondErr) => preCondErr.violations)
+    .flatMap((viol) => viol.type)
+    .filter((type) => type === "INACCESSIBLE_SCHEMA" || type === "INCOMPATIBLE_SCHEMA"));
+  incompatible.violationType = violationTypes[0];
+  return incompatible;
 }
 
 // Note - the backend just includes file name, not the name of the connector resource in the GQLerror extensions.
 // so we don't use this yet. Ideally, we'd just include connector name in the extensions.
 export function getInvalidConnectors(err: any): string[] {
+  const preconditionErrs = errorDetails(err, PRECONDITION_ERROR_TYPESTRING);
   const invalidConns: string[] = [];
-  const original = err.context?.body?.error || err?.orignal;
-  const details: any[] = original?.details;
-  const preconditionErrs = details?.filter((d) =>
-    d["@type"]?.includes(PRECONDITION_ERROR_TYPESTRING),
-  );
   for (const preconditionErr of preconditionErrs) {
     const incompatibleConnViolation = preconditionErr?.violations?.filter(
       (v: { type: string }) => v.type === INCOMPATIBLE_CONNECTOR_TYPE,
@@ -36,3 +35,9 @@ export function getInvalidConnectors(err: any): string[] {
   }
   return invalidConns;
 }
+
+function errorDetails(err: any, ofType: string): any[] {
+  const original = err.context?.body?.error || err?.original;
+  const details: any[] = original?.details;
+  return details?.filter((d) => d["@type"]?.includes(ofType)) || [];
+}
diff --git a/src/dataconnect/schemaMigration.ts b/src/dataconnect/schemaMigration.ts
index a03cbdaa96c..cf49c33a092 100644
--- a/src/dataconnect/schemaMigration.ts
+++ b/src/dataconnect/schemaMigration.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ export async function migrateSchema(args: {
     if (!shouldDeleteInvalidConnectors && invalidConnectors.length) {
       const cmd = suggestedCommand(serviceName, invalidConnectors);
       throw new FirebaseError(
-        `Command aborted. Try deploying compatible connectors first with ${clc.bold(cmd)}`,
+        `Command aborted. Try deploying those connectors first with ${clc.bold(cmd)}`,
       );
     }
     const migrationMode = incompatible
@@ -356,11 +356,31 @@ async function ensureServiceIsConnectedToCloudSql(
 }
 
 function displaySchemaChanges(error: IncompatibleSqlSchemaError) {
-  const message =
-    "Your new schema is incompatible with the schema of your CloudSQL database. " +
-    "The following SQL statements will migrate your database schema to match your new Data Connect schema.\n" +
-    error.diffs.map(toString).join("\n");
-  logLabeledWarning("dataconnect", message);
+  switch (error.violationType) {
+    case "INCOMPATIBLE_SCHEMA":
+      {
+        const message =
+          "Your new schema is incompatible with the schema of your CloudSQL database. " +
+          "The following SQL statements will migrate your database schema to match your new Data Connect schema.\n" +
+          error.diffs.map(toString).join("\n");
+        logLabeledWarning("dataconnect", message);
+      }
+      break;
+    case "INACCESSIBLE_SCHEMA":
+      {
+        const message =
+          "Cannot access your CloudSQL database to validate schema. " +
+          "The following SQL statements can setup a new database schema.\n" +
+          error.diffs.map(toString).join("\n");
+        logLabeledWarning("dataconnect", message);
+        logLabeledWarning("dataconnect", "Some SQL resources may already exist.");
+      }
+      break;
+    default:
+      throw new FirebaseError(
+        `Unknown schema violation type: ${error.violationType}, IncompatibleSqlSchemaError: ${error}`,
+      );
+  }
 }
 
 function toString(diff: Diff) {
diff --git a/src/dataconnect/types.ts b/src/dataconnect/types.ts
index 7efaee5405f..c2d776fcc58 100644
--- a/src/dataconnect/types.ts
+++ b/src/dataconnect/types.ts
@@ -48,12 +48,15 @@ export interface File {
   content: string;
 }
 
-// An error indicating that the SQL database schema is incomptible with a data connect schema.
+// An error indicating that the SQL database schema is incompatible with a data connect schema.
 export interface IncompatibleSqlSchemaError {
-  // A list of differences between the two schema with instrucitons how to resolve them.
+  // A list of differences between the two schema with instructions how to resolve them.
   diffs: Diff[];
   // Whether any of the changes included are destructive.
   destructive: boolean;
+
+  // The failed precondition validation type.
+  violationType: "INCOMPATIBLE_SCHEMA" | "INACCESSIBLE_SCHEMA" | string;
 }
 
 export interface Diff {