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Salesforce Data Architecture and Management

You're reading from   Salesforce Data Architecture and Management A pragmatic guide for aspiring Salesforce architects and developers to manage, govern, and secure their data effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073240
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahsan Zafar Ahsan Zafar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Data Architecture and Data Management Essentials
2. Chapter 1:Data Architect Roles and Responsibilities FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Salesforce Objects and Data Modeling 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Data Management 5. Section 2: Salesforce Data Governance and Master Data Management
6. Chapter 4: Making Sense of Master Data Management 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Data Governance 8. Chapter 6: Managing Performance 9. Section 3: Large Data Volumes (LDVs) and Data Migrations
10. Chapter 7: Working with Large Volumes of Data 11. Chapter 8: Best Practices for General Data Migration 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tools for loading data into Salesforce

Tools are just that, tools, and there are a number of them that can be used to get the job done. Having the right tool for the job will make it smoother and easier to get the job done whereas using the wrong tool will lead to issues and will prolong the job. For example, using the standard Data Import Wizard (DIW), which is part of the standard CRM, for a complex data migration job that requires extensive transformation and error handling will not work and you will hit the limits of DIW very quickly.

These days, many third-party tools are available that have advanced capabilities such as a retry mechanism, error logging, and others. Modern middleware products usually have an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) component to them and can be used to migrate data. In this section, however, we will discuss the standard DIW and the Data loader.

Data Import Wizard (DIW)

Salesforce provides a user interface-based tool called Data Import Wizard to...

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