Microsoft SQL Server
A relational database management system developed by Microsoft for enterprise-scale data management and business intelligence solutions.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Microsoft SQL Server the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 14 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Microsoft SQL Server scores 49.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 27/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Microsoft SQL Server
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft SQL Server. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 14
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) API
.NET API for managing and administering SQL Server programmatically.
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Catalog API
API for managing SSIS packages, projects, and execution in the SSIS Catalog.
Azure SQL Managed Instance REST API
REST API for creating, configuring, and managing Azure SQL Managed Instances including databases, operations, and scheduling.
Data API Builder
Open source configuration-based engine that creates REST and GraphQL APIs for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases.
Azure Analysis Services REST API
REST API for managing Azure Analysis Services resources and performing asynchronous data refreshes of tabular models.
Microsoft SqlClient Data Provider (ADO.NET)
ADO.NET data provider for .NET Framework and .NET Core used for connecting to SQL Server, executing commands, and retrieving results.
Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server
Type 4 JDBC driver providing database connectivity to SQL Server through standard JDBC application program interfaces on the Java platform.
Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server
ODBC driver providing native-code API connectivity to SQL Server and Azure SQL Database for applications on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
Stand-alone OLE DB data access API for low-level COM components requiring high-performance access to SQL Server.
Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server (mssql-python)
Python driver using Direct Database Connectivity for direct connections to SQL Server without requiring an external driver manager, compliant with Python DB-API 2.0.
Node.js Driver for SQL Server (tedious)
Open-source JavaScript implementation of the TDS protocol for connecting to SQL Server from Node.js on Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Databases API
The Azure SQL Databases API from Microsoft SQL Server — 3 operation(s) for azure sql databases.
Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Servers API
The Azure SQL Servers API from Microsoft SQL Server — 1 operation(s) for azure sql servers.
Microsoft SQL Server Data API Builder API
The Data API Builder API from Microsoft SQL Server — 2 operation(s) for data api builder.
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Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONMicrosoft SQL Server - Azure SQL & Data API Builder HTTP APIs Azure SQL Databases API
OPEN COLLECTIONMicrosoft SQL Server - Azure SQL & Data API Builder HTTP APIs Azure SQL Databases Azure SQL Servers API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
MCP Server
MCP SERVERGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Microsoft SQL Server GraphQL API
Open source configuration-based engine that creates REST and GraphQL APIs for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases.
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Sql Server Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Microsoft SQL Server — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Microsoft SQL Server, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
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