Its a salesforce tool. we can install in our local system for doing data Migration.
Data Loader
- We can insert 5 million records per Transaction.
- We can insert Duplicate Records.
- We can perform operations in any custom and standard objects.
- By using Data loader, we can perform Insert, update and delete the record.
Navigation :
Install Data loader into our local System
Setup || Administer Setup ||Data management || Data Loader
Data Loader Actions:
- Insert – Create New Record
- Update – Doing Modifications on Existing records. All Updations are happen through Object Record ID .
- Upsert – Combination of Insert and Update .
- Delete – Delete the Existing records .All record deletion happen through Object Record ID. If you delete any record, it will be temporarily deleted( Recycle Bin).
- Hard Delete : Permently delete ( Record Not store into recycle bin).
- Export – Export Object data from salesforce to local System
- Export All – ( Salesforce Object + Recycle Bin data also ).
Login:
we can loging into data loader using salesforce Credentials: User Name: [email protected] Password: password + Security Token
Security Token:
When we accessing the salesforce from any third party application , after password we must enters the security token.
How to generate Security Token:
My Settings || Personal || Reset My Security Token
Note
- The Main advantage of Data loader is for each transaction, it gives two log file, they are success file and Error file .
- By using these files we can easily identify which records successes and which records are failed, for that we have select directory.