Use Microsoft Flow To Read Data From SQL And Write To SharePoint List

In this blog, you will learn how to use Microsoft Flow to read data from SQL and write to a SharePoint list.

Microsoft Flow helps to read data from SQL data tables (On Premise) and create the items with the data in Office 365 SharePoint list.

• Sign in to https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

Prerequisite - SQL connection is already created.

Steps to create a new Flow

• Navigate to My flows and then choose Create from Blank option.
  
  
  
• Add an action – When a new item is created in SharePoint. Enter SharePoint URL and select the list name.




• Click on new step -> add a new action -> choose SQL Server –> Get Rows.

• Select the table from which the data needs to be fetched.

• Maximum row to fetch is set as 10.

Click on new step -> Add condition.

1. Looping through the values helps to get the rows steps.
2. Here, I am filtering table data with active users. It’s being determined by the column named Active = ‘Y’.
3. If the user is active, then I am adding an action to create a new SharePoint list item.

Create a new item task. Update Title field with a column name FName.

Save the Flow. You will be seeing the Flow created under My Flows section.

• Navigate to the list choose in step 4 and create a new item. This will trigger the Flow, which we created.
• 10 records from SQL database are pushed to SharePoint list ‘Test’.




• To check the history, click on the Show all activity icon on top right corner. Now, select the Flow to view the activity details.