diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/tools/RegistryCli.java b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/tools/RegistryCli.java
index 9463b1daa..b268bcaf2 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/tools/RegistryCli.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/tools/RegistryCli.java
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ final class RegistryCli implements AutoCloseable, CommandRunner {
               + "If not set, credentials saved by running `nomulus login' will be used.")
   private String credentialJson = null;
 
+  @Parameter(
+      names = {"--sql_access_info"},
+      description = "Name of a file containing space-separated SQL access info used when deploying "
+          + "Beam pipelines")
+  private String sqlAccessInfoFile = null;
+
   // Do not make this final - compile-time constant inlining may interfere with JCommander.
   @ParametersDelegate
   private LoggingParameters loggingParams = new LoggingParameters();
@@ -161,7 +167,7 @@ final class RegistryCli implements AutoCloseable, CommandRunner {
     component =
         DaggerRegistryToolComponent.builder()
             .credentialFilePath(credentialJson)
-            .beamJpaModule(new BeamJpaModule(credentialJson))
+            .beamJpaModule(new BeamJpaModule(sqlAccessInfoFile))
             .build();
 
     // JCommander stores sub-commands as nested JCommander objects containing a list of user objects