# Connect Busybusy and SQL Server

When **Certifications: Certification Updated** fires in [Busybusy](https://apiant.ai/connections/busybusy), your agent runs **Add Row** in [SQL Server](https://apiant.ai/connections/sql-server), or **New or Updated Row** in SQL Server to **Create Project** in Busybusy. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Busybusy **6** triggers Busybusy **27** actions SQL Server **4** triggers SQL Server **7** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Busybusy and SQL Server to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Busybusy and SQL Server can do together

### From Busybusy to SQL Server

- When **Certifications: Certification Updated** in Busybusy then **Add Row** in SQL Server
- When **Certifications: New Certification Created** in Busybusy then **Update Row** in SQL Server

### From SQL Server to Busybusy

- When **New or Updated Row** in SQL Server then **Create Project** in Busybusy
- When **New Row** in SQL Server then **Create Break Entry** in Busybusy

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Busybusy and SQL Server

## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 34 actions

- Trigger

**Certifications: Certification Updated**

Triggers when a certification is created or updated in Busybusy.

- Trigger

**Certifications: New Certification Created**

Triggers when a new certification type is created in Busybusy.

- Trigger

**Employee Created**

Triggers when a new employee (member) is added to your busybusy organization.

- Trigger

**Employee Updated**

Triggers when an employee in busybusy is created or changed.

- Trigger

**Project Created**

Triggers when a new project is created in busybusy.

- Trigger

**Project Updated**

Triggers when a project or subproject is created or changed in Busybusy, including when it is unarchived.

- Action

**Archive Employee**

Archives an employee (member) in busybusy by setting their archived date.

- Action

**Archive Project**

Archives a project in Busybusy by setting its archived date.

- Action

**Certifications: Create Certification**

Creates a certification type in your Busybusy organization that employees can later be certified against.

- Action

**Certifications: Create Employee Certification**

Records that an employee holds a certification, with its issue, renewal and expiry dates.

- Action

**Certifications: Delete Certification**

Deletes a certification from your Busybusy organization by marking it deleted.

- Action

**Certifications: Renew Employee Certification**

Renews an employee's certification record in busybusy by setting a new renewal date and, optionally, a new expiration date.

- Action

**Certifications: Search Certifications**

Searches certifications in Busybusy by name, ID or date filters and returns the matching certifications.

- Action

**Certifications: Update Certification**

Updates an existing certification's name, description, renewal period or documentation settings.

- Action

**Certifications: Update Employee Certification**

Updates an employee's certification record in busybusy, such as its issue, renewal or expiration date or the employee it belongs to.

- Action

**Create Break Entry**

Creates a break on an existing busybusy time entry, with its start time and optional end time.

- Action

**Create Budget**

Creates a cost budget for a busybusy project, optionally scoped to a cost code or piece of equipment.

- Action

**Create Cost Code Group**

Creates a cost code group in busybusy for organizing cost codes.

- Action

**Create Employee**

Creates a new employee (member) in your busybusy organization.

- Action

**Create Equipment**

Creates a piece of equipment in busybusy with its name, model, serial number and tracking options.

- Action

**Create Project**

Creates a new project in busybusy.

- Action

**Create Time Entry**

Creates a time entry (clock-in record) for an employee in busybusy, optionally against a project, cost code and equipment.

- Action

**Search Break Entries**

Returns the break entries that match the filters you supply, such as a time entry, start time or paid status.

- Action

**Search Employee (Single)**

Finds a single employee by ID and returns the first matching employee record.

- Action

**Search Employees (Multiple)**

Returns the employees that match the filters you supply, such as name, username, employee number or group.

- Action

**Search Projects (Multiple)**

Returns all projects matching the given title, parent project, ID or dates.

- Action

**Unarchive Cost Code**

Restores an archived cost code so it is active again.

- Action

**Unarchive Employee**

Restores an archived employee in busybusy so they are active again.

- Action

**Unarchive Project**

Restores an archived project in Busybusy so it is active again.

- Action

**Update Cost Code**

Updates an existing cost code's title, code, unit, group, insurance classes or custom fields.

- Action

**Update Employee**

Updates an existing busybusy employee's name, username, contact details, position, employee number or group.

- Action

**Update Equipment**

Updates an existing piece of equipment in busybusy, changing only the details you fill in.

- Action

**Update Project**

Updates an existing project's name, parent project, or archive date in busybusy.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Row**

Triggers when a new row is added or modified.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Row (Custom Query)**

Fires for each new or changed row returned by a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database.

- Trigger

**New Row**

Triggers when you add a new row.

- Trigger

**New Table**

Fires when a new table appears in the connected SQL Server database.

- Action

**Add Row**

Add one row to a table on the connected SQL Server database.

- Action

**Delete Row**

Delete the rows in a table whose chosen column equals a value.

- Action

**Find Row**

Find the first row in a table whose chosen column matches a value.

- Action

**Find Rows via Custom Query**

Runs a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database and returns every row it matches.

- Action

**Find Row via Custom Query**

Runs a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database and returns the first row it matches.

- Action

**Run Custom Statement**

Runs a statement you write against the connected SQL Server database that changes data rather than returning rows, and reports how many rows it changed.

- Action

**Update Row**

Change column values on every row of a table whose chosen column matches a value.

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Reviews

## What our customers say

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Questions

## Busybusy and SQL Server, answered

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### What can start an automation from Busybusy?

Any of Busybusy's 6 triggers in the catalog, including Certifications: Certification Updated, Certifications: New Certification Created, Employee Created and Employee Updated. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in SQL Server when something happens in Busybusy?

Any of SQL Server's 7 actions, including Update Row, Add Row, Find Row and Find Rows via Custom Query. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from SQL Server to Busybusy?

Yes. When something happens in SQL Server, your agent can act in Busybusy too. This page covers both directions: SQL Server's triggers and Busybusy's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Busybusy or SQL Server?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

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### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
