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

Keep Nimble 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 Nimble and SQL Server

Treat Nimble 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 Notes, Tags, Custom fields, Contacts from Nimble into Stored Procedures, Databases, Schemas, 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 Nimble 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

  • 01 Consolidate contacts from marketing tools into Nimble while writing Nimble edits back to avoid duplicates.
  • 02 Feed Nimble activity and task data into reporting dashboards without manual CSV exports.
  • 03 Consolidate branch or plant databases into a single operational SQL Server hub
  • 04 Bi-directional sync between SQL Server rows and CRM objects so .NET line-of-business apps and sales tools share one dataset

Common sync patterns

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Nimble become tables in SQL Server you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

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

What you can sync between Nimble 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.

Nimble objects SQL Server objects How this pairing syncs
Tasks To-do items tied to contacts, mirrored into work-management tools or reporting tables Schemas Namespaces (dbo and custom) used to organize synced tables. Tasks is specific to Nimble and Schemas to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activities Calls, events, and interaction history used for engagement reporting outside Nimble Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems. Activities is specific to Nimble and Tables to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes Free-text records attached to contacts, replicated for a complete account timeline Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Notes is specific to Nimble and Views to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tags Segmentation labels that map to list membership or filters in downstream systems Columns Field-level mapping targets with T-SQL types. Tags is specific to Nimble and Columns to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom fields Account-defined contact attributes that carry enrichment or internal identifiers Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling. Custom fields is specific to Nimble and Primary and Unique Keys to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts Person records with multi-value fields for email, phone, and social profiles; the primary sync entity CDC Change Tables System-populated tables holding captured inserts, updates, and deletes for consumers. Contacts is specific to Nimble and CDC Change Tables to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Nimble and SQL Server

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.

Nimble SQL Server Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Nimble for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on record modification timestamps.

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

SQL Server Nimble Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in SQL Server are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. SQL Server Native Change Data Capture (CDC).

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Nimble: Subject to per-account API request quotas.
  • SQL Server: No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance resources, licensing tier, and connection limits.
What ships with Nimble ⇄ SQL Server

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Nimble 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 Nimble or SQL Server record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Nimble ⇄ 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 Nimble and SQL Server.

How the Nimble and SQL Server connectors work

Nimble

Integration surface
REST API (JSON)
Authentication
API key; OAuth 2.0 available for registered applications
Change detection
polling on record modification timestamps
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
subject to per-account API request quotas

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 Nimble 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 Nimble 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
    Nimble connected
    SQL Server connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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

Nimble and SQL Server integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust 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.

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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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