SurveyCTO to MySQL Integration

How Datrise loads SurveyCTO into MySQL

Datrise syncs SurveyCTO's form submissions, forms, fields, answers, enumerators, and submission timestamps into MySQL as a typed table per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in JSON columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as DATETIME/TIMESTAMP.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, so re-runs update only what changed. Optional RANGE partitioning by load date. MySQL collation matters for CRM text, so Datrise lands utf8mb4 to preserve emoji and non-Latin characters.

Ideal for operational reporting and app databases already standardized on MySQL.

Endpoints

SurveyCTO: Offline-capable field survey data collection.

MySQL: Widely used OSS relational engine (InnoDB).

How SurveyCTO entities map to MySQL

SurveyCTO entity	MySQL object	Notes
form submissions	`surveycto_form_submissions`	id PK · custom fields → JSON columns
forms	`surveycto_forms`	id PK · linked to surveycto_form_submissions
fields	`surveycto_fields`	id PK · linked to surveycto_form_submissions
answers	`surveycto_answers`	id PK · linked to surveycto_form_submissions

FAQ

How does Datrise handle SurveyCTO's custom fields in MySQL?

Flexible values are stored as JSON columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native MySQL types.

How does the SurveyCTO to MySQL sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

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