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Affinity to Azure SQL Database integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Affinity and Azure SQL Database in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Affinity and Azure SQL Database

Treat Affinity like part of your database: its records live in Azure SQL Database as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in Azure SQL Database, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Organizations, Opportunities, Field Values, Notes from Affinity into Schemas, Rows and columns, Stored procedures, Change tracking / CDC tables in Azure SQL Database with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Affinity with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • Push enrichment data computed elsewhere into Affinity field values on list entries.
  • Keep introductions and relationship data from Affinity aligned with outreach tools used by the team.
  • Feed an Azure SQL operational database with orders and inventory from an ERP in near real time.
  • Expose SaaS data (billing, support tickets) as tables in Azure SQL for reporting teams already on Microsoft tooling.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Affinity arrive as row changes in Azure SQL Database, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Affinity become tables in Azure SQL Database you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to Azure SQL Database sync onto the matching records in Affinity, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

What you can sync between Affinity and Azure SQL Database

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Affinity objects Azure SQL Database objects
Notes Meeting and call notes synced for record-keeping in other systems. Views Read-only projections used when the sync should expose a curated shape rather than raw tables.
Interactions Automatically captured emails and meetings, read for activity reporting. Schemas Namespaces that organize tables and control which objects a sync user can reach.
Reminders Follow-up tasks associated with people and organizations. Rows and columns Standard relational records with typed columns; primary keys anchor upserts.
Lists Pipelines (deal flow, fundraising, portfolio) that structure most Affinity data; syncs usually target a specific list. Stored procedures Existing business logic that some teams invoke on write instead of direct table inserts.
List Entries The membership of a person, organization, or opportunity on a list, carrying its list-specific fields. Change tracking / CDC tables System-maintained change records used to drive incremental sync.
Persons Contact records enriched with relationship intelligence, synced with CRMs and outreach tools. Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in the paired system.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ Azure SQL Database

Connect Affinity and Azure SQL Database for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Affinity–Azure SQL Database connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Affinity or Azure SQL Database instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity or Azure SQL Database data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Affinity or Azure SQL Database record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Affinity ⇄ Azure SQL Database sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Affinity and Azure SQL Database.

How the Affinity and Azure SQL Database connectors work

Affinity

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's published API rate limits

Azure SQL Database

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS), the same protocol as SQL Server; T-SQL over standard drivers
Authentication
SQL authentication (database credentials) or Microsoft Entra ID authentication
Change detection
Change data capture or change tracking, both supported on Azure SQL Database; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

How to connect Affinity to Azure SQL Database — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Affinity and Azure SQL Database with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Affinity connected
    Azure SQL Database connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Affinity and Azure SQL Database objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Affinity ⇄ Azure SQL Database
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Affinity Azure SQL Database
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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