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Database ⇄ CRM

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

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

  • SOC 2 and 6 other compliance frameworks
  • POC with real engineers in minutes

Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

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Why teams connect Azure SQL Database and Salesforce

Treat Salesforce 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 Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities from Salesforce into Views, Schemas, Rows and columns, Stored procedures 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 Salesforce 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

  • Consolidate multiple Salesforce orgs into a single database for cross-org reporting after an acquisition.
  • Sync Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities bi-directionally with Postgres so engineering teams read and write CRM data with plain SQL.
  • Replicate Azure SQL tables to a warehouse without building custom CDC pipelines.
  • Consolidate data from several line-of-business apps into one Azure SQL database as an integration hub.

Product events onto CRM records

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

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Salesforce API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

What you can sync between Azure SQL Database and Salesforce

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 SQL Database objects Salesforce objects
Stored procedures Existing business logic that some teams invoke on write instead of direct table inserts. Campaigns Marketing membership data; read out for attribution analysis in the warehouse.
Change tracking / CDC tables System-maintained change records used to drive incremental sync. Tasks and Events Activity records; usually read-only in syncs to feed activity reporting.
Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in the paired system. Products and Price Books Catalog and pricing data; commonly mastered in an ERP and written into Salesforce.
Views Read-only projections used when the sync should expose a curated shape rather than raw tables. Custom Objects Org-specific tables with the __c suffix; discoverable via describe metadata so field mappings can be generated.
Schemas Namespaces that organize tables and control which objects a sync user can reach. Accounts Company records that anchor most syncs; typically mapped to customer tables in a database or ERP.
Rows and columns Standard relational records with typed columns; primary keys anchor upserts. Contacts People linked to Accounts; synced two-way with marketing, support, and warehouse person records.
What ships with Azure SQL Database ⇄ Salesforce

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure SQL Database or Salesforce 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 SQL Database or Salesforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Azure SQL Database and Salesforce connectors work

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

Salesforce

Integration surface
REST, SOAP, and Bulk APIs
Authentication
OAuth login via a Salesforce user (browser-based authorization flow); requires "API Enabled" permission for polling mode, plus "Author Apex" and "Customize Application" OR "Modify All Data" for trigger mode
Change detection
Apex triggers are used whenever possible (Salesforce actively notifies Stacksync via an Apex trigger + callout class + remote site setting)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Daily API request allocations vary by edition and license count.
Salesforce setup guide
How it works

How to connect Azure SQL Database to Salesforce — 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 Azure SQL Database and Salesforce 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
    Azure SQL Database connected
    Salesforce connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure SQL Database and Salesforce 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 · Azure SQL Database ⇄ Salesforce
    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
    Azure SQL Database Salesforce
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Azure SQL Database and Salesforce integration FAQ

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.

SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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:

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