Dataloader Scripting Resources

I'm mostly focused on creating scripted solutions that can automate getting data in and out of Salesforce. So, that's going to be my focus with this blog. There may be other data integration solutions, however, the data loader is free and is supported by Salesforce.

I've spent a significant amount of time researching and fumbling around with this tool to get it to do what I want. And I hope that some of this information can help other people avoid some of the hair pulling that I went through.

You can download the latest version of the Data Loader by logging into Salesforce and clicking Setup > Data Management (under Administration Setup) > Data Loader

• Here is a link to the Data Loader Documentation (PDF)


• Here is a link with some good information from the developer's network


• Here is another person's account of using the Command Line Interface that I found very useful (PDF)

I'll add some more detailed posts with some code samples in the future...