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

Keep Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from Azure SQL Database: 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 Payroll Results, Suppliers, Customers and Invoices, Journal Entries from Workday into Rows and columns, Stored procedures, Change tracking / CDC tables, Tables in Azure SQL Database and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Azure SQL Database, 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

  • Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
  • Import journal entries from external billing or expense systems into Workday Financials.
  • 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.

Internal tools without API plumbing

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

Write back safely

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

React to financial events

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

What you can sync between Azure SQL Database 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.

Azure SQL Database objects Workday objects
Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in the paired system. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs.
Views Read-only projections used when the sync should expose a curated shape rather than raw tables. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems.
Schemas Namespaces that organize tables and control which objects a sync user can reach. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools.
Rows and columns Standard relational records with typed columns; primary keys anchor upserts. Compensation Pay components read into payroll, planning, and equity systems under strict access control.
Stored procedures Existing business logic that some teams invoke on write instead of direct table inserts. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools.
Change tracking / CDC tables System-maintained change records used to drive incremental sync. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
What ships with Azure SQL Database ⇄ Workday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure SQL Database or Workday 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 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 Azure SQL Database or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure SQL Database ⇄ Workday 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 Workday.

How the Azure SQL Database and Workday 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

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

    Choose tables

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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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