diff --git a/en_US/howto/fail2ban.sql.md b/en_US/howto/fail2ban.sql.md
index ec5c69d4..0bbaafbc 100644
--- a/en_US/howto/fail2ban.sql.md
+++ b/en_US/howto/fail2ban.sql.md
@@ -155,9 +155,10 @@ File `/etc/fail2ban/action.d/banned_db.conf` indicates we now have a new action
 named `banned_db` (it's file name without extension). Feel free to open this
 file and check what it does.
 
-Script `/usr/local/bin/fail2ban_banned_db` will read `/root/.my.cnf-fail2ban`
-(OpenLDAP/MySQL/MariaDB backends) or `~postgresql/.pgpass` (PostgreSQL backend)
-to read SQL credential.
+Script `/usr/local/bin/fail2ban_banned_db` will read SQL username and password
+from `/root/.my.cnf-fail2ban` (OpenLDAP/MySQL/MariaDB backends) or
+`~postgresql/.pgpass` (PostgreSQL backend), then connect to SQL server and
+add or remove banned IP addresses.
 
 ## Enable the new action `banned_db`
 
diff --git a/html/fail2ban.sql.html b/html/fail2ban.sql.html
index 653b3caa..7cef17a0 100644
--- a/html/fail2ban.sql.html
+++ b/html/fail2ban.sql.html
@@ -173,9 +173,10 @@ chmod 0550 /usr/local/bin/fail2ban_banned_db
 <p>File <code>/etc/fail2ban/action.d/banned_db.conf</code> indicates we now have a new action
 named <code>banned_db</code> (it's file name without extension). Feel free to open this
 file and check what it does.</p>
-<p>Script <code>/usr/local/bin/fail2ban_banned_db</code> will read <code>/root/.my.cnf-fail2ban</code>
-(OpenLDAP/MySQL/MariaDB backends) or <code>~postgresql/.pgpass</code> (PostgreSQL backend)
-to read SQL credential.</p>
+<p>Script <code>/usr/local/bin/fail2ban_banned_db</code> will read SQL username and password
+from <code>/root/.my.cnf-fail2ban</code> (OpenLDAP/MySQL/MariaDB backends) or
+<code>~postgresql/.pgpass</code> (PostgreSQL backend), then connect to SQL server and
+add or remove banned IP addresses.</p>
 <h2 id="enable-the-new-action-banned_db">Enable the new action <code>banned_db</code></h2>
 <p>Now go to <code>/etc/fail2ban/jail.d/</code> and update config files for the jails you
 want to store banned IP in SQL db. Let's take <code>dovecot.local</code> for example.</p>