# How to sync SQL Server data with ES indexes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sync-sql-server-data-with-es-indexes/59567>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sync-sql-server-data-with-es-indexes/59567 "2016-09-01T14:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![prasperl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@prasperl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prasperl)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sync-sql-server-data-with-es-indexes/59567/1 "2016-09-01T14:32:01Z")

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Since Rivers plugin is deprecated now,what would be an ideal tool/plugin to sync ES indexes with SQL Server data.

It looks like logstash supports jdbc plugin,but is that an ideal way to sync ES indexes with delta/incremental changes

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**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:** [September 1, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sync-sql-server-data-with-es-indexes/59567/2 "2016-09-01T14:44:21Z")

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I prefer doing that in the application layer if possible.

See what I wrote here: [http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/05/09/advanced-search-for-your-legacy-application/](http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/05/09/advanced-search-for-your-legacy-application/)

[https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc) is also a good candidate

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sync-sql-server-data-with-es-indexes/59567/3 "2017-07-05T22:23:12Z")

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