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SQL Server to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep SQL Server 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 SQL Server and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from SQL Server: 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 Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results, Suppliers from Workday into Columns, Primary and Unique Keys, CDC Change Tables, Stored Procedures in SQL Server and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against SQL Server, 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

  • Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
  • Bi-directional sync between SQL Server rows and CRM objects so .NET line-of-business apps and sales tools share one dataset
  • Expose SaaS records as SQL Server tables that existing SSRS reports and internal apps can query

Write back safely

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

React to financial events

Changes in Workday appear in SQL Server as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

Query finance data like any other data

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

What you can sync between SQL Server 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.

SQL Server objects Workday objects
Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems.
Columns Field-level mapping targets with T-SQL types. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control.
CDC Change Tables System-populated tables holding captured inserts, updates, and deletes for consumers. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools.
Stored Procedures T-SQL logic that can validate or post-process synced rows. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
Databases Instance-level databases that scope a sync's reads and writes. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
What ships with SQL Server ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever SQL Server 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 SQL Server or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the SQL Server and Workday connectors work

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

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 SQL Server 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 SQL Server 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
    SQL Server connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the SQL Server 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 · SQL Server ⇄ 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
    SQL Server 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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