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

Keep Drift and SQL Server 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 Drift and SQL Server

Treat Drift like part of your database: its records live in SQL Server 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 SQL Server, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Accounts, Users, Playbooks, Meetings from Drift into Views, Columns, Primary and Unique Keys, CDC Change Tables in SQL Server with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Drift 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

  • Enrich Drift contact and account records with firmographic or product data from an internal database to sharpen playbook targeting.
  • Sync meetings booked in Drift to CRM activities so pipeline attribution stays accurate.
  • Feed a cloud warehouse from SQL Server continuously using native CDC instead of SSIS batch jobs
  • Consolidate branch or plant databases into a single operational SQL Server hub

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to SQL Server sync onto the matching records in Drift, 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 Drift API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Drift arrive as row changes in SQL Server, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

What you can sync between Drift and SQL Server

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.

Drift objects SQL Server objects
Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources.
Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model. Columns Field-level mapping targets with T-SQL types.
Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling.
Accounts Company records used for account-based routing and targeting. CDC Change Tables System-populated tables holding captured inserts, updates, and deletes for consumers.
Users Agents and sales reps who own conversations and meetings. Stored Procedures T-SQL logic that can validate or post-process synced rows.
Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors. Databases Instance-level databases that scope a sync's reads and writes.
What ships with Drift ⇄ SQL Server

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Drift and SQL Server connectors work

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

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
How it works

How to connect Drift to SQL Server — 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 Drift and SQL Server 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
    Drift connected
    SQL Server connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Drift and SQL Server 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 · Drift ⇄ SQL Server
    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
    Drift SQL Server
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

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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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