# I don't find a place to enter the first Flux script in course 101 **URL:** \ **Category:** 101 - InfluxDB Essentials\ **Created:** [February 9, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519 "2023-02-09T16:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/1 "2023-02-09T16:33:40Z")
I’m just starting the 101 course. I created a free Cloud InfluxDB account but the UI seems to allow entering only SQL scripts. I therefore cannot execute the Flux script to fill the NOAA bucket. ![influx1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/2/2916941bfc0291a16e67eddf87bd9114f24496a9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![hkolvenbach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/hkolvenbach/32/12624_2.png) [@hkolvenbach](https://community.influxdata.com/u/hkolvenbach)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/2 "2023-02-10T10:58:07Z")
I am running into the same problem. It seems that the data explorer only accepts SQL queries. The UI also changed a lot compared to the UI shown in the lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/gray_jones/32/12628_2.png) [@Gray\_Jones](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Gray_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/3 "2023-02-10T19:59:22Z")
I’ve got the same issue - seems like the course is no longer valid? ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/4 "2023-02-13T14:15:28Z")
This is a reply I got from InfluxDB: Hi Dino, as of January 31st we have updated our InfluxDB Cloud database engine to support SQL queries to make ramping up on InfluxDB and time series data faster and easier. You can learn more about our new engine here ([Announcing the General Availability of Our New High-Performance Time Series Engine in InfluxDB Cloud | InfluxData](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-new-database-engine/)). ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/5 "2023-02-14T08:48:08Z")
Update: they told me I should use SQL instead of Flux. I tried to upload the NOAA dataset and run a simple query and got an error back. I opened another ticket about that. ---
**Author:** ![gaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@gaja](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gaja)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/6 "2023-02-25T23:19:11Z")
Looks like they changed the UI, but the course content is not updated to reflect it. Unfortunately this is the first step in the course and you cant move forward without this. Looks like a missed opportunity ---
**Author:** ![gaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@gaja](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gaja)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/7 "2023-02-25T23:20:13Z")
what is the SQL to upload the dataset… ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/8 "2023-02-27T08:12:30Z")
Last week I attended an introductory webinar on InfluxDB and all the emphasis was on the new iox db storage engine and itsSQL frontend (so far available only on Infux cloud, I believe): > **[Welcome to InfluxDB IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-engine/)** > > Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform. #influxdb Looks like Flux will become some kind of “legacy” environment. Unfortunately course 101, as is, becomes useless. ---
**Author:** ![gaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@gaja](https://community.influxdata.com/u/gaja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/9 "2023-02-28T01:42:19Z")
wonderful, waste of time i guess ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/10 "2023-02-28T07:36:42Z")
Well, I don’t want to sound too harsh in my opinions. During the webinar they said the current InfluxQL query language will stay and I guess keep Flux for quite some time. As a newbie in InfluxDB with a strong RDBMS background the convergence towards pure SQL seems positive though. ---
**Author:** ![beingmerry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/beingmerry/32/12770_2.png) [@beingmerry](https://community.influxdata.com/u/beingmerry)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/11 "2023-03-06T16:49:20Z")
@dinofm @gaja I’m currently working through the Influx101 and was suggested to use the OSS for now to get familiar. It also seems to have a more “feature complete” set of tools vs the cloud version limiting you to what you have paid for. ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/12 "2023-03-08T14:25:10Z")
Thank you for the suggestion, as I’m just “having a look” at Influx DB, I was planning to use the cloud version to avoid installing and configuring an OSS instance. On which OS did you install it? ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/13 "2023-03-08T14:30:21Z")
I just saw in your other post that you installed it on Windows. ---
**Author:** ![beingmerry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/beingmerry/32/12770_2.png) [@beingmerry](https://community.influxdata.com/u/beingmerry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/14 "2023-03-14T15:50:23Z")
I installed it on both Windows and WSL2. I’m currently using it on WSL2 and it seems to be working very well! ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/15 "2023-03-15T07:56:14Z")
Was installation easy? I’m not familiar with WSL2, did you install Influx using APT or similar tool? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![beingmerry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/beingmerry/32/12770_2.png) [@beingmerry](https://community.influxdata.com/u/beingmerry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/16 "2023-03-15T12:11:18Z")
Apt has a package but I think it lags behind a bit, so I built from the source ( [GitHub - influxdata/influxdb: Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb) ) then run it with influxd command, then access the interface via browser. The URL should be localhost:8086 (port 8086 by default) WSL2 install is relatively easy now (compared to WSL1) [Install Ubuntu on WSL2 and get started with graphical applications | Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#1-overview) Hope that helps! ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/17 "2023-03-15T13:27:46Z")
Thank you fir the information, I hope I can find the time to install it in the coming weeks. does Influx install its own local web server as well? ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/18 "2023-03-15T14:42:40Z")
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Hi all, for those starting the **InfluxDB Essentials Course** on **InfluxDB University**. Since the release of InfluxDB IOx this course is **no longer compatible with the Cloud/SAS version of InfluxDB.** We are working hard to release a new course soon to better reflect the new storage engine. Until then here are the options: You may continue to go through the course if you download and install InfluxDB 2.X locally on your machine. The course material is compatible with this version. - Wait for the new course to be released. - We apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. Any questions please do not hesitate to reach out. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 ---
**Author:** ![dinofm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dinofm](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dinofm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/19 "2023-03-15T15:05:28Z")
Hi Jay , thank you for the clarification ---
**Author:** ![beingmerry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/beingmerry/32/12770_2.png) [@beingmerry](https://community.influxdata.com/u/beingmerry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-dont-find-a-place-to-enter-the-first-flux-script-in-course-101/28519/20 "2023-03-15T23:17:16Z")
@dinofm yes, the `influxd` command runs the influx daemon that also has a web server component that is normally exposed at port 8086