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MySQL to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep MySQL and Workday 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 MySQL and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from MySQL: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers, Organizations, Positions from Workday into Tables, Views, Columns, Primary and Unique Keys in MySQL and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against MySQL, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Workday with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • Keep supervisory-organization hierarchies aligned with planning and workforce tools that model the same structure.
  • Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
  • Replicate ERP master data (customers, items, pricing) into the MySQL databases behind storefronts and portals
  • Keep e-commerce orders in MySQL flowing into finance and fulfillment systems without export scripts

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Workday live in MySQL as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on MySQL; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Workday.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in MySQL propagate into Workday, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

What you can sync between MySQL and Workday

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.

MySQL objects Workday objects
Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
Columns Field-level mapping targets with engine-typed values. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used.
JSON Columns Validated semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS data. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials.
Stored Procedures Server-side logic that can post-process synced rows. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs.
Triggers An alternative change-capture mechanism when binlog access is unavailable. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs.
What ships with MySQL ⇄ Workday

Connect MySQL and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every MySQL–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in MySQL or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever MySQL or Workday 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 MySQL or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your MySQL ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between MySQL and Workday.

How the MySQL and Workday connectors work

MySQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL client/server protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or parameters, with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + SSH host)
Change detection
Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when binary logging is enabled)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources
MySQL setup guide

Workday

Integration surface
SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
Change detection
Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect MySQL to Workday — 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 MySQL and Workday 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
    MySQL connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the MySQL and Workday 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 · MySQL ⇄ Workday
    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
    MySQL Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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