# How to connect ElasticSearch As-A-Service to SQL Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 7, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-as-a-service-to-sql-server/77719 "2017-03-07T18:46:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reza\_Rahmati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@Reza\_Rahmati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Reza_Rahmati)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-as-a-service-to-sql-server/77719/1 "2017-03-07T18:46:34Z")
Hi I am very new at elastic search, I see a great number of articles about how to stream data from sql server to local ElasticSearch, but I am wondering is it possible to connect cloud base ElasticSearch (as a service) to SQL Server, so that I don't need to setup any node.js server? Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-as-a-service-to-sql-server/77719/2 "2017-03-07T19:12:41Z")
No. You need a process which runs SQL queries on your system and send them to elasticsearch wherever elasticsearch is. It can be logstash for example. But you need to start a logstash instance yourself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-as-a-service-to-sql-server/77719/3 "2017-04-04T19:12:43Z")
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