Being able to focus on things that matter is more important than having to do mundane time-consuming tasks on a daily basis. Automating your daily workflows can give you more time to do other things. If you have data stored in an Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server database, a fully managed MySQL service on Azure, and use this data to perform daily tasks for your business needs, you need to streamline the processes by integrating with MySQL data to insert new data, update data, delete data or get the rows from the tables. Zapier is a service that can help you achieve this. Zapier helps you automate repetitive tasks and integrate with various other services as well as data sources without writing code. Zapier has more than a million users building apps and integrations to automate their tasks from building CRUD applications to automating blog post content publishing.
In this post, I’ll show you how to integrate Zapier with data stored on Azure Database for MySQL to accommodate a scenario that inserts data in a MySQL database when a Google forms response is received.
Note: Currently, Zapier doesn’t support integration with Azure Database for MySQL over SSL or MySQL version 8.0+. Be sure to disable SSL on Azure Database for MySQL and that you’re using MySQL version 5.7.
CREATE database contactsdb;
USE contactsdb;
Create table contacts (
contact_id int unsigned not null auto_increment,
name varchar(200),
address varchar(200),
phone varchar(200),
email varchar(64),
comments text,
primary key (contact_id));
Zapier is a service that allows non-technical users to connect a triggering event from one service with one or more actions in other services. There are hundreds of services connected to Zapier and each connection between services is called a Zap. Each Zap consists of a trigger and one or more actions. When you turn your Zap on, it will run the action steps every time the trigger event occurs.
You’ve successfully created automation for storing responses from Google forms into an Azure Database for MySQL server.
You can now test this workflow end to end since the Zap automation is in production. You can see if all the responses are being added to the database. Go to your contact information Google form and submit a test response. After submitting the response, use the MySQL client tool to verify that the response was added to the table.
Zapier lets you connect MySQL with thousands of the most popular apps and services so that you can automate time consuming tasks with no code required. Some of scenarios you can easily automate with Zapier are:
Increase your productivity by doing more with Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server and Zapier integrations!
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