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title: 'Flight SQL Data Connector' sidebar_label: 'Flight SQL Data Connector' description: 'Flight SQL Data Connector Documentation'

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Connect to any Flight SQL compatible server (e.g. Influx 3.0, CnosDB, other Spice runtimes!) as a connector for federated SQL queries.

Configuration

from

The from field takes the form flightsql:dataset where dataset is the fully qualified name of the dataset to read from.

name

The dataset name. This will be used as the table name within Spice. The dataset name cannot be a reserved keyword.

params

Parameter name	Description
flightsql_endpoint	The Apache Flight endpoint used to connect to the Flight SQL server.
flightsql_username	Optional. The username to use in the underlying Apache flight Handshake Request to authenticate to the server (see reference).
flightsql_password	Optional. The password to use in the underlying Apache flight Handshake Request to authenticate to the server. Use the secret replacement syntax to load the password from a secret store, e.g. ${secrets:my_flightsql_pass}.
flightsql_tls_ca_certificate_file	Optional. Path to a CA certificate file (PEM format) to use for TLS verification instead of system certificates.

Secrets

Spice integrates with multiple secret stores to help manage sensitive data securely. For detailed information on supported secret stores, refer to the secret stores documentation. Additionally, learn how to use referenced secrets in component parameters by visiting the using referenced secrets guide.