# Get Started with Redpanda SQL

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-   [Redpanda SQL Quickstart](sql-quickstart/)

    Connect to Redpanda SQL on a BYOC cluster and run your first query on streaming data.

-   [Enable Redpanda SQL on a BYOC Cluster](deploy-sql-cluster/)

    Enable the Redpanda SQL engine on a BYOC cluster so you can query streaming data with standard PostgreSQL syntax.

-   [Redpanda SQL Overview](overview/)

    Redpanda SQL is a column-oriented OLAP query engine in Redpanda Cloud BYOC for querying live Redpanda topics and their history in Iceberg tables with PostgreSQL syntax.