Features

• Connection to Salesforce - The driver provides capabilities to establish connections to Salesforce directly via HTTPS. If you have no access to Salesforce via HTTPS directly, you have also an ability to connect via Proxy using the options: Host, Port, Username, Password.
• Extended SQL Syntax - The ODBC driver provides an unrivalled opportunity to work with Salesforce objects just as with SQL tables. The extended SQL syntax allows you to use all the SQL benefits in SQL-92 compatible SELECT statements:
  • Complex JOINs
  • WHERE conditions
  • Subqueries
  • GROUP statements
  • Aggregation functions
  • ORDER statements
• DML Operations - Devart ODBC Driver for Salesforce provides support for DML:
  • INSERT
  • UPDATE
  • DELETE
  • which allows you to modify data in Salesforce the same way as in SQL databases.
• Bulk Updates - You can perform bulk updates by combining SQL statements into batches, thus simplifying and speeding up large data modification.
• Advanced Data Conversion - Includes advanced Data Conversion mechanisms that provide bi-directional mapping to ODBC data types.
• ODBC Conformance - The driver provides full support for common ODBC interface:
  • ODBC API Functions support
  • ODBC Data Types support
  • In addition, it provides support for Advanced Connection String parameters. Thus allowing any desktop and web applications to connect from various environments and platforms that support ODBC.
• Integration - The driver is compatible with 3rd-party data analysis tools, such as Microsoft Excel, and integrates with various IDEs and systems like Visual Studio, etc.
• Platforms - The driver can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both x32 and x64 platforms, so there is no need to additionally configure the driver, applications or environment.
• Fully Unicode Driver - You can retrieve and work with any data from multi-lingual databases correctly, not depending on whether its charset is Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., in any environment localization.