---
title: "Connecting a SQL client"
sidebarTitle: "Client Connection"
description: "Reaching the Arrow Flight SQL endpoint from Python or TypeScript."
icon: plug
keywords: ["flight sql", "client", "connect", "arrow"]
---

<Badge color="red">Enterprise</Badge>

This page describes a LanceDB Enterprise capability. The embedded form
of LanceDB has no server to provide it -- see
[Architecture](/architecture) for what differs between the two.

SQL is served over an
[Arrow Flight SQL](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/FlightSql.html)
endpoint, so any Flight SQL client reaches it and results arrive as Arrow
record batches.

From Python, the connection runs SQL directly without a separate client:

```python
reader = db.execute_query("SELECT id, text FROM my_docs LIMIT 10")
table = reader.read_all()
```

The TypeScript SDK has no SQL method; use a Flight SQL client. See
[SDKs and SQL](/basics/apis) for the full comparison, and the
[SQL reference](/sql) for the dialect.