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Sneak peak of new data quality offering: Let us know what you think
Hi everyone, In this post I'd like to provide you all with a sneak peak of a new real-time data quality enforcement offering that we're currently exploring, that we'd love to get your feedback on (complementing our existing contact data validation products). The idea centres around exposing Data Studio functionality (e.g.…
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Data Studio Salesforce Connection
Connecting Data Studio directly to your data sources and CRM systems, like Salesforce, has never been easier. This video is to remind and inform users, just how easily two systems can work in harmony, without any complex development. We've created out of the box connectors, for a wide range of common platforms, to make…
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Importing data into Salesforce child objects
I have a user case to use out of the box functionality that come with Salesforce and is available in the Progress Driver to relate data in parent and child objects on import. In a Salesforce object you can designate a field as an external ID. When you load a child object such as Contact where the parent is Account and you…
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Support for VARBINARY(MAX) field type in ADS
Hello I have a user case that requires migrating Salesforce objects that contain attachments such as HTML Body, PDF's, Word, Excel and jpg's attachments to another instance of Salesforce. These are normally stored as a VARBINARY(MAX) in a MS SQL database and I think would be a Blob in SQL Lite. Given these data types are…
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Connecting to Salesforce with OAuth2
Data Studio uses a JDBC driver to connect to Salesforce, allowing data to be extracted, transformed, validated, and then optionally pushed back to source. As well as standard username / password authentication, the driver supports OAuth 2.0 authentication when establishing a connection. The following guide is a brief…
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SalesForce refresh failed to process query: INVALID_FIELD
We have scheduled refresh Jobs to refresh the Tables on daily basis. The Wfs are getting the status completed but the tables are actually not getting refreshed. I tried to manually refesh as well but that is also not working. This is happening when there is new column added in the tables and that tables is not getting…
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Find Duplicates with Phonetic Comparators
We now have the new phonetic comparators (Soundex, NYSIIS and Double Metaphone) for Find Duplicates that you can use to supplement the edit distance comparators (Levenshtein, JaroWinkler) for better match results. Why the need to supplement the edit distance comparators? Edit distance algorithms count the number of steps…
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Salesforce tables have different columns after upgrading from Data Studio v1 to v2
If you've previously used Data Studio v1 to load data from your Salesforce instance, and have upgraded to v2, you will have noticed that the way we show column names from Salesforce tables, and the columns we display by default, has changed. This is because the JDBC driver we use internally to connect to Salesforce has…
