ClickHouse/docs/en/sql-reference/table-functions/odbc.md
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slug: /en/sql-reference/table-functions/odbc
sidebar_position: 150
sidebar_label: odbc
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# odbc
Returns table that is connected via [ODBC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity).
``` sql
odbc(connection_settings, external_database, external_table)
```
Parameters:
- `connection_settings` — Name of the section with connection settings in the `odbc.ini` file.
- `external_database` — Name of a database in an external DBMS.
- `external_table` — Name of a table in the `external_database`.
To safely implement ODBC connections, ClickHouse uses a separate program `clickhouse-odbc-bridge`. If the ODBC driver is loaded directly from `clickhouse-server`, driver problems can crash the ClickHouse server. ClickHouse automatically starts `clickhouse-odbc-bridge` when it is required. The ODBC bridge program is installed from the same package as the `clickhouse-server`.
The fields with the `NULL` values from the external table are converted into the default values for the base data type. For example, if a remote MySQL table field has the `INT NULL` type it is converted to 0 (the default value for ClickHouse `Int32` data type).
## Usage Example
**Getting data from the local MySQL installation via ODBC**
This example is checked for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 and MySQL server 5.7.
Ensure that unixODBC and MySQL Connector are installed.
By default (if installed from packages), ClickHouse starts as user `clickhouse`. Thus you need to create and configure this user in the MySQL server.
``` bash
$ sudo mysql
```
``` sql
mysql> CREATE USER 'clickhouse'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'clickhouse';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'clickhouse'@'clickhouse' WITH GRANT OPTION;
```
Then configure the connection in `/etc/odbc.ini`.
``` bash
$ cat /etc/odbc.ini
[mysqlconn]
DRIVER = /usr/local/lib/libmyodbc5w.so
SERVER = 127.0.0.1
PORT = 3306
DATABASE = test
USERNAME = clickhouse
PASSWORD = clickhouse
```
You can check the connection using the `isql` utility from the unixODBC installation.
``` bash
$ isql -v mysqlconn
+-------------------------+
| Connected! |
| |
...
```
Table in MySQL:
``` text
mysql> CREATE TABLE `test`.`test` (
-> `int_id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-> `int_nullable` INT NULL DEFAULT NULL,
-> `float` FLOAT NOT NULL,
-> `float_nullable` FLOAT NULL DEFAULT NULL,
-> PRIMARY KEY (`int_id`));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,09 sec)
mysql> insert into test (`int_id`, `float`) VALUES (1,2);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0,00 sec)
mysql> select * from test;
+------+----------+-----+----------+
| int_id | int_nullable | float | float_nullable |
+------+----------+-----+----------+
| 1 | NULL | 2 | NULL |
+------+----------+-----+----------+
1 row in set (0,00 sec)
```
Retrieving data from the MySQL table in ClickHouse:
``` sql
SELECT * FROM odbc('DSN=mysqlconn', 'test', 'test')
```
``` text
┌─int_id─┬─int_nullable─┬─float─┬─float_nullable─┐
│ 1 │ 0 │ 2 │ 0 │
└────────┴──────────────┴───────┴────────────────┘
```
## See Also
- [ODBC dictionaries](../../sql-reference/dictionaries/index.md#dictionary-sources#dicts-external_dicts_dict_sources-odbc)
- [ODBC table engine](../../engines/table-engines/integrations/odbc.md).