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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Read data from Linked SQL Server</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/19654/read-data-from-linked-sql-server</link><description>I have the data source which is a linked SQL server. 
 We can only read the the data from that linked server (no write permission) 
 How can I execute a select query in Appian to read from one of the tables in that linked SQL DB?</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Read data from Linked SQL Server</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/76793?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:35:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a16ee5f6-259b-43fa-bc5d-a66b0183f69c</guid><dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Pooja, to execute a traditional SELECT query against your database you can utilize the &lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.3/Query_Database_Smart_Service.html"&gt;Query Database Smart Service&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; If you have defined a CDT and Data Store to reference these tables (preferable), you can utilize &lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.3/fnc_system_a_queryentity.html"&gt;a!queryEntity&lt;/a&gt;().&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>