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Apollo.io to SQL Server integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Apollo.io and SQL Server 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 Apollo.io and SQL Server

Treat Apollo.io like part of your database: its records live in SQL Server 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 SQL Server, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Deals (Opportunities), Tasks and calls, Custom fields, Contacts from Apollo.io into CDC Change Tables, Stored Procedures, Databases, Schemas in SQL Server with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Apollo.io 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

  • Deduplicate contacts across Apollo and the CRM by syncing on email as the match key.
  • Push CRM opportunity stages back into Apollo so reps see pipeline context while sequencing.
  • Feed a cloud warehouse from SQL Server continuously using native CDC instead of SSIS batch jobs
  • Consolidate branch or plant databases into a single operational SQL Server hub

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Apollo.io arrive as row changes in SQL Server, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Apollo.io become tables in SQL Server you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

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

What you can sync between Apollo.io and SQL Server

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.

Apollo.io objects SQL Server objects
Contacts People saved to your Apollo account, synced with emails, phone numbers, and enrichment fields. Schemas Namespaces (dbo and custom) used to organize synced tables.
Accounts Company records with firmographic attributes, matched to CRM accounts during sync. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems.
People (database records) Prospects from Apollo's global database, pulled into downstream systems once enriched or saved. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources.
Sequences Outreach cadences (emailer campaigns in the API); enrollment status is read to track which contacts are being worked. Columns Field-level mapping targets with T-SQL types.
Deals (Opportunities) Pipeline records that can be read and written to keep Apollo aligned with the CRM of record. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling.
Tasks and calls Rep activity records synced for activity reporting and coaching workflows. CDC Change Tables System-populated tables holding captured inserts, updates, and deletes for consumers.
What ships with Apollo.io ⇄ SQL Server

Connect Apollo.io and SQL Server for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Apollo.io–SQL Server connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Apollo.io or SQL Server instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apollo.io or SQL Server 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 Apollo.io or SQL Server record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Apollo.io ⇄ SQL Server sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Apollo.io and SQL Server.

How the Apollo.io and SQL Server connectors work

Apollo.io

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (passed in request headers); master keys unlock account-wide endpoints
Change detection
Polling on updated-at timestamps; webhook callbacks exist only for delivering asynchronous enrichment results, not as a general change-event stream
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Rate limits and enrichment credits vary by plan; bulk endpoints are throttled separately from single-record calls

SQL Server

Integration surface
SQL over the TDS wire protocol (Tabular Data Stream), via ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET drivers
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or as parameters (host/user/password) in the Create New Sync page
Change detection
SQL Server Native Change Data Capture (CDC); a DBA runs a one-time setup script with sysadmin privileges to enable CDC and create Stacksync wrapper procedures
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance resources, licensing tier, and connection limits
SQL Server setup guide
How it works

How to connect Apollo.io to SQL Server — 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 Apollo.io and SQL Server 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
    Apollo.io connected
    SQL Server connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Apollo.io and SQL Server 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 · Apollo.io ⇄ SQL Server
    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
    Apollo.io SQL Server
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Apollo.io and SQL Server integration FAQ

SECURITY

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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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

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