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MotherDuck to Ukg Ready integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep MotherDuck and Ukg Ready 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 MotherDuck and Ukg Ready

Land the people and organization records from Ukg Ready in MotherDuck as live tables for workforce reporting, without extract jobs, and write computed results back where Ukg Ready can use them.

Workforce data is some of the most requested data in the warehouse and some of the most awkward to move: the record types are many, the fields carry sensitive personal information, the APIs are strict, and hand-built extract jobs go stale or break quietly. Whether Ukg Ready is the system of record for employees and payroll, for candidates and applications, or for learners and course completions, the reporting belongs in MotherDuck next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Payroll (Earnings / Deductions / Employee Payroll Runs), Benefits, Cost Centers / Groups, Reports (Report-as-a-Service) from Ukg Ready into tables in MotherDuck continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in MotherDuck, such as headcount rollups, cost allocations, or attrition risk flags, can be written back to fields in Ukg Ready where the HR team acts on them. You configure which records and fields cross over, and in which direction, instead of maintaining pipeline code.

Common use cases

  • 01 Share curated, synced datasets with other teams through read-only database shares
  • 02 Land CRM and operational database records in MotherDuck so a small team gets warehouse-style analytics without cluster management
  • 03 Create new-hire Employee records in UKG Ready from an ATS or onboarding workflow, including position, cost center, and compensation fields.
  • 04 Feed Timesheet Entries and Accruals/Time Off into a data warehouse for labor-cost, overtime, and PTO-liability reporting.

Common sync patterns

Queryable history for planning and audit

A continuously synced copy in MotherDuck gives you a durable, queryable record of how Ukg Ready's records change over time, for headcount planning and audit questions.

Write-back of computed values

Segments, rollups, or risk flags computed in MotherDuck sync back onto the matching records in Ukg Ready, where the HR team sees them in the system they already use.

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Ukg Ready arrive in MotherDuck as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind, replacing hand-built extract jobs.

What you can sync between MotherDuck and Ukg Ready

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.

MotherDuck objects Ukg Ready objects How this pairing syncs
Databases Cloud-hosted DuckDB databases that scope a sync's reads and writes. Benefits Plan enrollments, coverage tiers, contributions, and effective dates; typically read into benefits or finance systems. Databases is specific to MotherDuck and Benefits to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize synced tables. Cost Centers / Groups Departments, locations, and hierarchy used as org structure; read to align headcount and budget models across systems. Schemas is specific to MotherDuck and Cost Centers / Groups to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables The main landing target for synced records and source for analysis. Reports (Report-as-a-Service) Scheduled IBM Cognos extracts used for bulk historical pulls that the per-employee REST endpoints are not built for. Tables is specific to MotherDuck and Reports (Report-as-a-Service) to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Modeled projections used as outbound sync sources. Employees Core person records (demographics, contact info, status, work location); synced two-way and mapped to HRIS or person tables in a database. Views is specific to MotherDuck and Employees to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Database Shares Read-only copies of a database shared with other users or teams. Employment / Positions Job title, department, employment type, hire and termination dates; read for org modeling and written when roles change. Database Shares is specific to MotherDuck and Employment / Positions to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Attached Local DuckDB Databases Local files attached alongside cloud databases for hybrid queries. Compensation Salary or hourly rate, pay frequency, and FLSA status; often mastered elsewhere and written onto the employee record, or read into finance. Attached Local DuckDB Databases is specific to MotherDuck and Compensation to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between MotherDuck and Ukg Ready

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.

MotherDuck Ukg Ready Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls MotherDuck for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ukg Ready through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Ukg Ready MotherDuck Sub-second propagation

DetectionUkg Ready notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to MotherDuck as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • MotherDuck: Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits.
  • Ukg Ready: Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention.
What ships with MotherDuck ⇄ Ukg Ready

Connect MotherDuck and Ukg Ready for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every MotherDuck–Ukg Ready connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in MotherDuck or Ukg Ready instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever MotherDuck or Ukg Ready 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 MotherDuck or Ukg Ready record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your MotherDuck ⇄ Ukg Ready sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between MotherDuck and Ukg Ready.

How the MotherDuck and Ukg Ready connectors work

MotherDuck

Integration surface
SQL through DuckDB clients and drivers using a MotherDuck (md:) connection
Authentication
Access token created in MotherDuck (Settings > General > Create Token), pasted into Stacksync; database name and schema configurable if not using defaults
Change detection
Polling; no log-based CDC or webhook surface is exposed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits
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Ukg Ready

Integration surface
UKG Ready REST API (v1/v2) plus the Import Tool (XML transactions) and Report-as-a-Service (IBM Cognos); a legacy SOAP API also exists
Authentication
A 7-digit company short name, a Web API key (Company Setup > Login Config), and a dedicated API service-account user (username/password) are exchanged for a session Bearer token sent on every request; Onboarding/Recruiting endpoints use a separate authorization token
Change detection
UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing; broad change capture via polling REST endpoints with date filters or scheduled Report-as-a-Service extracts
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention
How it works

How to connect MotherDuck to Ukg Ready — 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 MotherDuck and Ukg Ready 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
    MotherDuck connected
    Ukg Ready connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the MotherDuck and Ukg Ready 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 · MotherDuck ⇄ Ukg Ready
    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
    MotherDuck Ukg Ready
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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