Microsoft SQL Server on the native driver — the same query action, against the database your enterprise already runs.
How Air Pipe reaches SQL Server
SQL Server has a native driver in the engine. A query action takes the statement and its parameters separately — so the values are bound, never interpolated into SQL — and the connection is pooled for you. Every statement becomes a span in the request's trace, with its timing attached.
- name: Lookup database: main query: SELECT TOP 20 * FROM dbo.Orders WHERE CustomerId = @P1 params: [a|query::customer|]
Route: Native database driver
Auth: Connection string
The same config is four things at once
Whatever you build against SQL Server is not locked to one surface. The same config can expose HTTP routes, run on a cron schedule, receive webhooks, and be called by an agent as an MCP tool — with one auth model and one deploy. You do not rebuild the workflow to make it callable, and you do not bolt an MCP node onto the end of a canvas.
HTTP routes with OpenAPI docs generated from the config
Cron schedules and webhooks in the same file as the API
MCP tools with input schemas derived from the route's own assertions
OpenTelemetry traces and Prometheus metrics on all of it
Readable config you own, managed or self-hosted
The artifact is a config you can read, diff and review in a pull request — not a canvas stored in a vendor's database. Run it on Air Pipe's managed cloud or self-host the single binary, with the same config either way, and your data staying on your infrastructure when you choose to self-host.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a SQL Server connector I have to install? No. SQL Server is reached through a native action that ships with the engine — nothing to install, enable or version separately.
Where do the credentials live? In managed variables or secrets, referenced from the config by name — never in the config text. Any action that mints a token should also carry hide_data_on_success: true, or the token comes back in the response body.
Can an agent call this? Yes, and you do not build anything extra for it. Mark the interface mcp: true and the same route becomes an MCP tool, with its input schema derived from the assertions the route already carries. An agent calling it gets the same auth, the same validation and the same traces as an HTTP client.
What do I get to see when it fails? An end-to-end OpenTelemetry trace covering the request, each action and each database call, Prometheus counters and durations on /metrics, and the run history for the deployment. None of it is written by you and none of it is a separate product.