# How does the grafana sql backend work?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/how-does-the-grafana-sql-backend-work/18297>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-does-the-grafana-sql-backend-work/18297 "2019-06-13T13:07:01Z")\
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Read the code 🙂

There is no docs for each table. Read the API docs if you want to automate dashboard creation & updates.

Or look at the provisioning docs

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