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name: Exasol
menu: Connecting to Databases
route: /docs/databases/exasol
index: 16
version: 1
---

## Exasol

The recommended connector library for Exasol is
[sqlalchemy-exasol](https://github.com/exasol/sqlalchemy-exasol).

The connection string for Exasol looks like this:

```
exa+pyodbc://{username}:{password}@{hostname}:{port}/my_schema?CONNECTIONLCALL=en_US.UTF-8&driver=EXAODBC
```
