Devart ODBC Driver for Salesforce is a high-performance connectivity tool with enterprise-level features for accessing Salesforce from ODBC-compliant reporting, analytics, BI, and ETL tools on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. Our ODBC driver for Salesforce fully supports standard ODBC API functions and data types and enables easy access to live Salesforce data from anywhere.
Salesforce ODBC connector enables various ODBC-aware applications to connect to Salesforce directly via HTTPS. If you have no direct access to Salesforce via HTTPS, you have the option of establishing a connection through a proxy server.
Our Salesforce 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:
Devart ODBC Driver for Salesforce provides support for DML:
which allows you to modify data in Salesforce the same way as in SQL databases.
Our ODBC driver is a standalone installation file that doesn't require the user to deploy and configure any additional software such as a database client or a vendor library. Deployment costs are reduced drastically, especially when using the silent install method with an OEM license in large organizations that have hundreds of machines.
Salesforce ODBC driver provides full support for common ODBC interface:
In addition, we provide support for Advanced Connection String parameters, thus allowing any desktop and web applications to connect to Salesforce from various environments and platforms that support ODBC.
Our ODBC driver has full support for Salesforce field data types and, moreover, the driver is compatible with the Salesforce API itself.
Salesforce ODBC 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.
The driver is compatible with third-party tools for data analysis, such as Microsoft Excel, and integrates with various IDEs and systems like Visual Studio, etc.
For the complete list of compatible tools and environments visit the Compatibility page.
With our fully Unicode-compliant driver, you can properly retrieve and modify any data in multilingual Salesforce databases, regardless of their character set: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., and in any language environment.
We have implemented advanced Data Conversion mechanisms that provide bi-directional mapping between any Salesforce and ODBC data types.
Every operation with Salesforce becomes significantly faster using such capabilities of our ODBC driver for Salesforce as local data caching, connection pooling, and much more.
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ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a standard application programming interface that allows external applications such as Microsoft Excel or Power BI, and programming languages such as PHP, Python, etc. access data from a common database or cloud application. ODBC driver enables accessing data in relational and non-relational databases and cloud applications directly from Windows, macOS, and Linux.
It's recommended to first delete an older version of the driver if you have one installed. To install the ODBC Driver for Salesforce:
It is supposed that you have already installed the ODBC Driver for Salesforce on your machine. After installing the driver, create a DSN for Salesforce:
