diff --git a/frontend/src/components/DataSyncModal.tsx b/frontend/src/components/DataSyncModal.tsx
index eb612fa8..2c62da4f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/DataSyncModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/DataSyncModal.tsx
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import {
 } from "../utils/connectionDriverType";
 import { resolveSqlDialect } from "../utils/sqlDialect";
 import { quoteIdentPart, quoteQualifiedIdent } from "../utils/sql";
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from "../utils/tableMetadataRows";
 import {
   formatLocalDateTimeLiteral,
   normalizeTemporalLiteralText,
@@ -722,19 +723,7 @@ const DataSyncModal: React.FC<{
         const config = normalizeConnConfig(conn, dbName);
         const res = await DBGetTables(config as any, dbName);
         if (res.success) {
-          // DBGetTables returns [{Table: "name"}, ...]
-          const tableRows = Array.isArray(res.data) ? res.data : [];
-          const tables = tableRows
-            .map(
-              (row: any) =>
-                row?.Table ||
-                row?.table ||
-                row?.TABLE_NAME ||
-                Object.values(row || {})[0],
-            )
-            .filter(
-              (name: any) => typeof name === "string" && name.trim() !== "",
-            );
+          const tables = normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(res.data);
           const nextTables = (
             isSourceQueryMode && targetSupportsSchemaSelection && targetSchema
               ? filterTablesBySchema(tables as string[], targetSchema)
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/FindInDatabaseModal.tsx b/frontend/src/components/FindInDatabaseModal.tsx
index f8fe330d..e8fd6d35 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/FindInDatabaseModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/FindInDatabaseModal.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { buildOverlayWorkbenchTheme } from '../utils/overlayWorkbenchTheme';
 import { buildRpcConnectionConfig } from '../utils/connectionRpcConfig';
 import { isMacLikePlatform } from '../utils/appearance';
 import { useI18n } from '../i18n/provider';
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from '../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 
 interface FindInDatabaseModalProps {
     open: boolean;
@@ -117,8 +118,7 @@ const FindInDatabaseModal: React.FC<FindInDatabaseModalProps> = ({ open, onClose
                 setSearching(false);
                 return;
             }
-            const tableRows: any[] = Array.isArray(tablesRes.data) ? tablesRes.data : [];
-            const tableNames = tableRows.map((row: any) => Object.values(row)[0] as string).filter(Boolean);
+            const tableNames = normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(tablesRes.data);
 
             if (tableNames.length === 0) {
                 message.info(t('find_in_database.message.no_tables'));
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/QueryEditor.tsx b/frontend/src/components/QueryEditor.tsx
index 4ae07b3b..459bf454 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/QueryEditor.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/QueryEditor.tsx
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
 } from '../utils/queryResultPagination';
 import { extractQueryResultTableRef, type QueryResultTableRef } from '../utils/queryResultTable';
 import { quoteIdentPart, quoteQualifiedIdent } from '../utils/sql';
+import { extractTableNameFromMetadataRow } from '../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 import { formatSqlExecutionError, hasLocalizedSqlTimeoutKeyword } from '../utils/sqlErrorSemantics';
 import { canReusePendingSqlEditorTransactionForType, shouldUseSqlEditorManagedTransactionForType } from '../utils/sqlEditorTransaction';
 import { findSqlStatementRanges, resolveCurrentSqlStatementRange, resolveExecutableSql } from '../utils/sqlStatementSelection';
@@ -1009,10 +1010,7 @@ const clearRecord = (record: Record<string, unknown>) => {
 const QUERY_EDITOR_SQL_SNIPPET_SUGGEST_DETAIL_MIN_HEIGHT = 260;
 
 const getCompletionTableNameFromRow = (row: any): string => (
-    normalizeCommentText(
-        getCaseInsensitiveValue(row, ['table_name', 'TABLE_NAME', 'Table', 'table', 'name', 'Name'])
-            ?? Object.values(row || {})[0],
-    )
+    normalizeCommentText(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row))
 );
 
 const getCompletionTableCommentFromRow = (row: any): string => (
@@ -6973,7 +6971,7 @@ const QueryEditor: React.FC<{ tab: TabData; isActive?: boolean }> = ({ tab, isAc
                     }
                     const fetchedTables = resTables.data
                         .map((row: any) => {
-                            const tableName = String(Object.values(row || {})[0] || '').trim();
+                            const tableName = extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row);
                             if (!tableName) return null;
                             return {
                                 dbName: normalizedDbName,
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TableExportWorkbench.tsx b/frontend/src/components/TableExportWorkbench.tsx
index 00455019..762220e7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TableExportWorkbench.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TableExportWorkbench.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { buildRpcConnectionConfig } from '../utils/connectionRpcConfig';
 import { getColumnDefinitionName } from '../utils/columnDefinition';
 import { resolveConnectionHostSummary } from '../utils/tabDisplay';
 import { buildExportWorkbenchHistoryKey } from '../utils/tableExportTab';
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from '../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 import {
   formatExportElapsed,
   formatExportProgressRows,
@@ -521,11 +522,8 @@ const TableExportWorkbench: React.FC<{ tab: TabData }> = ({ tab }) => {
           setObjectLoadError(res.message || t('data_export.message.load_objects_failed'));
           return;
         }
-        const tableRows: any[] = Array.isArray(res.data) ? res.data : [];
         const nextOptions = toSortedSelectOptions(
-          tableRows
-            .map((row) => String(Object.values(row)[0] || '').trim())
-            .filter(Boolean),
+          normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(res.data),
         );
         setAvailableObjects(nextOptions);
         const availableNameSet = new Set(nextOptions.map((item) => item.value));
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TableOverview.tsx b/frontend/src/components/TableOverview.tsx
index 3d364b42..174b362e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TableOverview.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TableOverview.tsx
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import { getShortcutPlatform } from '../utils/shortcuts';
 import { t } from '../i18n';
 import { buildTableExportTab } from '../utils/tableExportTab';
 import { getDataSourceCapabilities } from '../utils/dataSourceCapabilities';
+import { extractTableNameFromMetadataRow } from '../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 import { V2TableContextMenuView, type V2TableContextMenuActionKey } from './V2TableContextMenu';
 import { useExportProgressDialog } from './ExportProgressModal';
 import { showSQLExportOptionsDialog } from './SQLExportOptionsDialog';
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ const parseTableStats = (dialect: string, rows: Record<string, any>[]): TableSta
         };
 
         return {
-            name: strVal(['Name', 'name', 'table_name', 'tablename', 'TABLE_NAME', 'Table', 'table', 'Device', 'device']),
+            name: extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row) || strVal(['Device', 'device']),
             comment: strVal(['Comment', 'table_comment', 'TABLE_COMMENT', 'comments']),
             rows: numVal(['Rows', 'table_rows', 'TABLE_ROWS', 'num_rows', 'reltuples', 'total_rows'], -1),
             dataSize: numVal(['Data_length', 'data_length', 'DATA_LENGTH', 'total_bytes'], -1),
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ai/aiDatabaseToolHelpers.ts b/frontend/src/components/ai/aiDatabaseToolHelpers.ts
index 89b23242..38f77db1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ai/aiDatabaseToolHelpers.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ai/aiDatabaseToolHelpers.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import type { SavedConnection } from '../../types';
 import { buildPaginatedSelectSQL, quoteQualifiedIdent } from '../../utils/sql';
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from '../../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 
 export const normalizeTableList = (rows: any[]): string[] =>
-  rows.map((row) => row.Table || row.table || (Object.values(row)[0] as string));
+  normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(rows);
 
 export const normalizeColumns = (rows: any[]) =>
   rows.map((column) => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.test.tsx
index 64202fd7..6cbcf1f2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.test.tsx
@@ -172,6 +172,40 @@ describe('useAIChatContextBinding', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('uses the named table field instead of metadata values such as row counts', async () => {
+    dbGetDatabasesMock.mockResolvedValue({
+      success: true,
+      data: [{ Database: 'analytics' }],
+    });
+    dbGetTablesMock.mockResolvedValue({
+      success: true,
+      data: [
+        { Rows: '128', Table: 'users', Data_length: '4096' },
+        { Index_length: '2048', table_name: 'orders', Rows: '42' },
+        { Name: 'metadata-label', Rows: '7', TABLE: 'customers' },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    let renderer: ReactTestRenderer;
+    await act(async () => {
+      renderer = create(<HookHarness />);
+    });
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      await latestHook!.handleOpenContext();
+    });
+
+    expect(latestHook!.filteredTables).toEqual([
+      { name: 'users' },
+      { name: 'orders' },
+      { name: 'customers' },
+    ]);
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      renderer!.unmount();
+    });
+  });
+
   it('falls back to the English unchanged-selection info message after a no-op sync', async () => {
     let renderer: ReactTestRenderer;
     await act(async () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.ts b/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.ts
index 63320f02..f1f62b43 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ai/useAIChatContextBinding.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import type { AIContextItem } from '../../types';
 import { useStore } from '../../store';
 import { buildRpcConnectionConfig } from '../../utils/connectionRpcConfig';
 import { resolveAITableSchemaToolResult } from '../../utils/aiTableSchemaTool';
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from '../../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 import { DBGetColumns, DBGetDatabases, DBGetTables, DBShowCreateTable } from '../../../wailsjs/go/app/App';
 
 interface ActiveContextRef {
@@ -36,6 +37,10 @@ const getErrorDetail = (value: unknown): string => {
   return detail || 'unknown error';
 };
 
+export const normalizeAIContextTables = (data: unknown): { name: string }[] => {
+  return normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(data).map((name) => ({ name }));
+};
+
 export const useAIChatContextBinding = ({
   activeContext,
   activeContextItems,
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ export const useAIChatContextBinding = ({
     try {
       const res = await DBGetTables(buildRpcConnectionConfig(connConfig), dbName);
       if (res.success && Array.isArray(res.data)) {
-        setContextTables(res.data.map((row) => ({ name: Object.values(row)[0] as string })));
+        setContextTables(normalizeAIContextTables(res.data));
       } else {
         const detail = getErrorDetail(res.message);
         message.error(translateMessage(
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ export const useAIChatContextBinding = ({
       setSelectedDbName(initialDbName);
       const tablesRes = await DBGetTables(buildRpcConnectionConfig(connection.config) as any, initialDbName);
       if (tablesRes.success && Array.isArray(tablesRes.data)) {
-        setContextTables(tablesRes.data.map((row: any) => ({ name: Object.values(row)[0] as string })));
+        setContextTables(normalizeAIContextTables(tablesRes.data));
       } else {
         const detail = getErrorDetail(tablesRes.message);
         message.error(translateMessage(
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/dataGridErDiagramModel.ts b/frontend/src/components/dataGridErDiagramModel.ts
index 59d9454b..caf0d77e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/dataGridErDiagramModel.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/dataGridErDiagramModel.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type { ColumnDefinition, ForeignKeyDefinition } from '../types';
+import { extractTableNameFromMetadataRow } from '../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 
 export type ErDiagramRelationDirection = 'incoming' | 'outgoing' | 'self';
 
@@ -160,16 +161,7 @@ export const extractErTableNames = (rows: unknown): string[] => {
   const seen = new Set<string>();
   const result: string[] = [];
   rows.forEach((row) => {
-    const candidate = readText(row, [
-      'table',
-      'Table',
-      'TABLE',
-      'tableName',
-      'TableName',
-      'TABLE_NAME',
-      'name',
-      'Name',
-    ]) || String(Object.values((row as Record<string, unknown>) || {})[0] || '').trim();
+    const candidate = extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row);
     const normalized = normalizeErQualifiedName(candidate);
     if (!normalized || seen.has(normalized)) {
       return;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/sidebar/sidebarMetadataLoaders.ts b/frontend/src/components/sidebar/sidebarMetadataLoaders.ts
index 5bc81992..56d67cc4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/sidebar/sidebarMetadataLoaders.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/sidebar/sidebarMetadataLoaders.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
   type SidebarViewMetadataEntry,
 } from "../../utils/sidebarMetadata";
 import { isPostgresSchemaDialect } from "../sidebarCoreUtils";
+import { extractTableNameFromMetadataRow } from "../../utils/tableMetadataRows";
 
 export const buildSidebarRuntimeConfig = (
   conn: any,
@@ -232,14 +233,7 @@ const getMySQLShowTablesName = (row: Record<string, any>): string => {
 };
 
 const getSidebarTableName = (row: Record<string, any>): string => {
-  return getCaseInsensitiveValue(row, [
-    "Table",
-    "table",
-    "table_name",
-    "TABLE_NAME",
-    "Name",
-    "name",
-  ]) || getMySQLShowTablesName(row) || getFirstRowValue(row);
+  return extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row);
 };
 
 const parseMetadataRowCount = (
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/sidebar/useSidebarBatchExport.ts b/frontend/src/components/sidebar/useSidebarBatchExport.ts
index 170cfffc..0fc90a0d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/sidebar/useSidebarBatchExport.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/sidebar/useSidebarBatchExport.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import type { SavedConnection } from '../../types';
 import { t } from '../../i18n';
 import { buildRpcConnectionConfig } from '../../utils/connectionRpcConfig';
 import type { SidebarViewMetadataEntry } from '../../utils/sidebarMetadata';
+import { normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows } from '../../utils/tableMetadataRows';
 import {
   buildBatchDatabaseExportWorkbenchTab,
   buildBatchTableExportWorkbenchTab,
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ export const useSidebarBatchExport = ({
           return;
       }
 
-      const tableRows: any[] = Array.isArray(res.data) ? res.data : [];
+      const tableNames = normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows(res.data);
       const viewRows: SidebarViewMetadataEntry[] = Array.isArray(viewResult.views) ? viewResult.views : [];
       const viewSet = new Set(
           viewRows.flatMap((view) => {
@@ -353,8 +354,7 @@ export const useSidebarBatchExport = ({
           })
       );
 
-      const tableObjects: BatchObjectItem[] = tableRows
-          .map((row: any) => Object.values(row)[0] as string)
+      const tableObjects: BatchObjectItem[] = tableNames
           .filter((tableName: string) => !viewSet.has(tableName.toLowerCase()))
           .map((tableName: string) => ({
               title: getSidebarTableDisplayName(conn, tableName),
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.test.ts b/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d6c320d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import {
+  extractTableNameFromMetadataRow,
+  normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows,
+} from './tableMetadataRows';
+
+describe('table metadata rows', () => {
+  it('prefers explicit table fields over row and storage statistics', () => {
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ Rows: '128', Table: 'users', Data_length: '4096' })).toBe('users');
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ Name: 'metadata-label', TABLE: 'customers' })).toBe('customers');
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ Index_length: '2048', table_name: 'orders' })).toBe('orders');
+  });
+
+  it('supports legacy one-column and MySQL table-list rows without guessing multi-field metadata', () => {
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ Tables_in_app: 'events' })).toBe('events');
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ arbitrary_column: 'legacy_table' })).toBe('legacy_table');
+    expect(extractTableNameFromMetadataRow({ Rows: '12', Data_length: '2048' })).toBe('');
+  });
+
+  it('normalizes string and object rows while removing empty and duplicate names', () => {
+    expect(normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows([
+      ' users ',
+      { Table: 'orders', Rows: '42' },
+      { table_name: 'users' },
+      { Table: '' },
+      null,
+    ])).toEqual(['users', 'orders']);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.ts b/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1bbf8554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/tableMetadataRows.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+const TABLE_NAME_KEY_PRIORITY = ['table', 'table_name', 'tablename', 'name'] as const;
+
+const toNonEmptyText = (value: unknown): string => String(value ?? '').trim();
+
+export const extractTableNameFromMetadataRow = (row: unknown): string => {
+  if (typeof row === 'string') {
+    return row.trim();
+  }
+  if (!row || typeof row !== 'object' || Array.isArray(row)) {
+    return '';
+  }
+
+  const entries = Object.entries(row as Record<string, unknown>);
+  const valuesByKey = new Map(entries.map(([key, value]) => [key.trim().toLowerCase(), value]));
+
+  for (const key of TABLE_NAME_KEY_PRIORITY) {
+    const name = toNonEmptyText(valuesByKey.get(key));
+    if (name) {
+      return name;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const mysqlTableEntry = entries.find(([key]) => key.trim().toLowerCase().startsWith('tables_in_'));
+  const mysqlTableName = toNonEmptyText(mysqlTableEntry?.[1]);
+  if (mysqlTableName) {
+    return mysqlTableName;
+  }
+
+  return entries.length === 1 ? toNonEmptyText(entries[0][1]) : '';
+};
+
+export const normalizeTableNamesFromMetadataRows = (rows: unknown): string[] => {
+  if (!Array.isArray(rows)) {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  const names: string[] = [];
+  rows.forEach((row) => {
+    const name = extractTableNameFromMetadataRow(row);
+    if (!name || seen.has(name)) {
+      return;
+    }
+    seen.add(name);
+    names.push(name);
+  });
+  return names;
+};