---
title: Write to SAP HANA
description: Use sql.to() with the hdb driver to write data to SAP HANA.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/flux/v0/write-data/sql/sap-hana/
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product: Flux
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canonical: https://docs.influxdata.com/flux/v0/write-data/sql/sap-hana/
date: '2023-09-12T23:33:31-06:00'
lastmod: '2023-09-12T23:33:31-06:00'
---

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

1. Import the [`sql` package](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/).

2. Pipe-forward data into [`sql.to()`](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/to/) and provide
   the following parameters:

   * **driverName**: hdb
   * **dataSourceName**: *See [data source name](#sap-hana-data-source-name)*
   * **table**: Table to write to
   * **batchSize**: Number of parameters or columns that can be queued within
     each call to `Exec` (default is `10000`)

```
import "sql"

data
    |> sql.to(
        driverName: "hdb",
        dataSourceName: "hdb://username:password@myserver:30015",
        table: "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>
```

## Flux to SAP HANA data type conversion

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

|              Flux data type               |SAP HANA data type|
|-------------------------------------------|------------------|
| [float](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/float/) |      DOUBLE      |
|   [int](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/int/)   |      BIGINT      |
|[string](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/string/)|  NVARCHAR(5000)  |
|  [bool](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/bool/)  |     BOOLEAN      |
|  [time](/flux/v0/data-types/basic/time/)  |   \* TIMESTAMP   |

\* 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.to() function](/flux/v0/stdlib/sql/to/)
| Flux data type | SAP HANA data type |
| --- | --- |
| Flux data type | SAP HANA data type |
| float | DOUBLE |
| int | BIGINT |
| string | NVARCHAR(5000) |
| bool | BOOLEAN |
| time | *  TIMESTAMP |