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Microsoft SQL Server

A relational database management system developed by Microsoft for enterprise-scale data management and business intelligence solutions.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Microsoft SQL Server the way a machine reads it — 25 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 44.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (agent ready). 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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 44.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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.

Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

MCP 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 SERVER

GraphQL 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.

GRAPHQL

Pricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

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.

FinOps 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.

Microsoft Sql Server Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Sql Server Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Sql Server Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Microsoft Sql Server Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Microsoft Sql Server Agentic Access

12 operations · 7 acting

12 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

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

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-sql-server · machine-readable index on apis.io