---
title: Query SAP HANA
description: Use sql.from() with the hdb driver to query SAP HANA.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/flux/v0/query-data/sql/sap-hana/
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product: Flux
version: v0
---

# Query SAP HANA

To query [SAP HANA](https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html) with Flux:

1. Import the [`sql` package](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/).
    
2. Use [`sql.from()`](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/from/) and provide the following parameters:
    
    -   **driverName**: hdb
    -   **dataSourceName**: *See [data source name](#sap-hana-data-source-name)*
    -   **query**: SQL query to execute

```js
import "sql"

sql.from(
    driverName: "hdb",
    dataSourceName: "hdb://username:password@myserver:30015",
    query: "SELECT * FROM SCHEMA.TABLE",
)
```

## SAP HANA data source name

The `hdb` driver uses the following DSN syntaxes (also known as a **connection string**):

```
hdb://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>?<connection-property>=<value>&<connection-property>=<value>&...
hdb://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>?DATABASENAME=<tenant-db-name>
hdb://?KEY=<keyname>
```

## SAP HANA to Flux data type conversion

`sql.from()` converts SAP HANA data types to Flux data types.

| SAP HANA data type | Flux data type |
| --- | --- |
| TINYINT, SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT | int |
| REAL, DOUBLE, DECIMAL | float |
| * TIMESTAMP | time |

All other SAP HANA data types are converted to strings.

\* The SAP HANA **TIMESTAMP** data type does not store time zone information and [SAP strongly discourages storing data in the local time zone](https://blogs.sap.com/2018/03/28/trouble-with-time/). For more information, see [Timestamps in SAP HANA](https://help.sap.com/viewer/f1b440ded6144a54ada97ff95dac7adf/2.4/en-US/a394f75dcbe64b42b7a887231af8f15f.html).

#### Related

-   [sql.from() function](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/from/)