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Changes in Azure Active Directory or Azure SQL Database instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Azure Active Directory to Azure SQL Database integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Azure Active Directory 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 Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database
Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Azure SQL Database and Azure Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.
Azure Active Directory is the system of record for who people are and what they can reach: users, the groups they belong to, and the applications assigned to them. Azure SQL Database holds the operational data those same people show up in, whether an employee or member table that decides who should have an account at all, a customers list, or the rows an application checks before it authorizes an action. The two describe overlapping users and groups, and when a nightly export or a hand-run script is all that connects them, accounts lag joiners and leavers and the application authorizes against a stale picture of who has access.
Stacksync syncs Schemas, Rows and columns, Stored procedures, Change tracking / CDC tables in Azure SQL Database with Directory roles, Devices, Users, Groups in Azure Active Directory field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, with the directory holding credentials and group membership and the database holding the source list of people who should exist at all, and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, resolving conflicts by rules you set. A person added to a table becomes an account within seconds, a departure disables one just as fast, and the directory's users and groups are always present in your tables as ordinary rows.
Common use cases
- 01 Expose SaaS data (billing, support tickets) as tables in Azure SQL for reporting teams already on Microsoft tooling.
- 02 Replicate Azure SQL tables to a warehouse without building custom CDC pipelines.
- 03 Mirror Applications and Service principals into a database or CMDB to track app ownership and credential expiry.
- 04 Reconcile Entra ID Users and assignedLicenses with an ITSM or finance database to audit license allocation and reclaim unused seats.
Common sync patterns
One profile, kept current
A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.
Provision accounts from the source of truth
When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in Azure SQL Database, Stacksync creates the matching user in Azure Active Directory with the right attributes, so access starts from live data instead of a manual ticket.
Deprovision the moment the record changes
When someone is marked inactive or removed in Azure SQL Database, the matching account in Azure Active Directory is disabled within seconds, closing the window between a departure and a login that still works.
What you can sync between Azure Active Directory 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.
| Azure Active Directory objects | Azure SQL Database objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. | Change tracking / CDC tables System-maintained change records used to drive incremental sync. | Groups is specific to Azure Active Directory and Change tracking / CDC tables to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. | Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in the paired system. | Group memberships is specific to Azure Active Directory and Tables to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. | Views Read-only projections used when the sync should expose a curated shape rather than raw tables. | Applications is specific to Azure Active Directory and Views to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. | Schemas Namespaces that organize tables and control which objects a sync user can reach. | Service principals is specific to Azure Active Directory and Schemas to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. | Rows and columns Standard relational records with typed columns; primary keys anchor upserts. | Directory roles is specific to Azure Active Directory and Rows and columns to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. | Stored procedures Existing business logic that some teams invoke on write instead of direct table inserts. | Devices is specific to Azure Active Directory and Stored procedures to Azure SQL Database — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Azure Active Directory Azure SQL Database Sub-second propagation
DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.
DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Azure SQL Database as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
Azure SQL Database Azure Active Directory Sub-second propagation
DetectionChanges in Azure SQL Database are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change data capture or change tracking, both supported on Azure SQL Database.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Azure Active Directory ⇄ Azure SQL Database
Connect Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Active Directory–Azure SQL Database connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Active Directory 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 Azure Active Directory or Azure SQL Database record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Azure Active Directory ⇄ 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 Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database.
How the Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database connectors work
Azure Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header
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 Azure Active Directory 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Azure Active Directory 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.
Azure Active Directory
connected
Azure SQL Database
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Azure Active Directory 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.
objects · Azure Active Directory ⇄ Azure SQL DatabaseCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Azure Active Directory Azure SQL DatabaseCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Azure Active Directory's Groups and Group memberships), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Common patterns for Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database: One profile, kept current; Provision accounts from the source of truth; Deprovision the moment the record changes. A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.
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Azure Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent. Azure SQL Database: 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. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Azure SQL Database: As a managed service, server-level features are constrained compared with a full SQL Server instance, so connectors authenticate to a logical server endpoint rather than an OS-level host. Azure Active Directory: Change is tracked with Microsoft Graph delta query: deltaLink tokens return only modified User and Group properties and mark deletions with an @removed annotation; unused delta tokens eventually expire and force a full resync. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Azure Active Directory and Azure SQL Database connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Azure Active Directory–Azure SQL Database integration in-house.
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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.
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