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# Connecting to SQL Server

### Steps

Please follow the steps below to connect to a SQL Server data source.

1. Click "New Data Connection" in the upper right corner of the data connection page.
   ![](/images/data-connection/connection-001.png)

2. Select the SQL Server data source from the data source types.
   ![](/images/data-connection/connecting-sqlserver-001.png)

3. Fill in the required parameters for the data source connection as prompted.
   ![](/images/data-connection/connecting-sqlserver-002.png)

   **Connection Configuration Information Description**

   | Field                                 | Description                                                                                                   |
   | --------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
   | Name                                  | The name of the connection. Required and unique within the user scope                                         |
   | Host Address                          | The address of the database. If the url field is filled in, the value in url will be used with higher priority|
   | Port                                  | The port of the database. If the url field is filled in, the value in url will be used with higher priority   |
   | Username                              | The username for the database                                                                                 |
   | Password                              | The password for the database                                                                                 |
   | Database                              | The name of the database                                                                                      |
   | Max Connections                       | Maximum number of connections in the connection pool                                                          |
   | Prefer using database comment as dataset title | Whether to display the table name or the table comment as the title                                  |
   | URL                                   | The JDBC url of the database                                                                                  |
   | Transaction isolation level for read operations | This setting only affects reading data; writing data still uses the default isolation level           |
   | Hierarchical loading of schema and tables      | Default is off. When enabled, schemas and tables are loaded hierarchically. Only schemas are loaded during connection; you need to click the schema to load the tables under it |
   | Query timeout (seconds)               | Default is 600. For large data volumes, you can appropriately increase the timeout                           |
   | Allow write operations                | Indicates that this connection can be selected as an output connection in [Data Integration](pipeline.md) and [Batch Sync](batch-sync.md). You must have write permission to the database and pass verification before configuring this parameter. |
   | Support uploading files to specified path      | Indicates the database name where the generated table will be stored when creating a local file dataset. You must have write permission to the database and pass verification before configuring this parameter. |
   | Show only tables under specified database/schema | When this option is selected and the database field is not empty, only tables under the specified db will be displayed |

4. After filling in the parameters, click the `Validate` button to get the validation result (this checks the connectivity between HENGSHI SENSE and the configured data connection; you cannot add the connection if validation fails).

5. After validation passes, `Allow write operations` and `Support uploading files to specified path` will be enabled and can be optionally turned on.

6. Click `Execute Preset Code` to pop up the preset code for this data source, then click the execute button.

7. Click the `Add` button to add the SQL Server connection.

> \[!CAUTION] Please note
>
> 1. Parameters marked with \* are required; others are optional.
> 2. When connecting to a data source, you must execute the preset code. Failure to do so may result in certain functions being unavailable during data analysis. In addition, when upgrading from a version prior to 4.4 to 4.4, you need to execute the preset code for existing data connections in the system.

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### Supported SQL Server Versions

`SQL Server 2016`, `SQL Server 2017`, `SQL Server 2025`, etc.

### Data Connection Preview Support

Supports regular `table` and `view`.

### SQL Dataset Support for SQL

All `SELECT`-related features are supported, and the `SELECT SQL` statement must comply with the `SQL Server` syntax specification.

### Unsupported Field Types

The following data types in SQL Server cannot be processed correctly:

* hierarchyid
* rowversion
* sql_variant
* xml
* geometry
* geography