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After you've connected SQL Server to Salesforce, how you insert data depends on the Salesforce data type of the target columns. For example, given a simple custom Salesforce table that contains two text fields, both of the following SQL statements are valid:
INSERT INTO
MYSALESFORCELINKEDSERVER.SF.DBO.Test__c (Name, Mth__c)
VALUES
('Test', 'Jan') INSERT OPENQUERY (
MYSALESFORCELINKEDSERVER,
'SELECT Name, Mth__c FROM Test__c'
)
VALUES
('Test 2', 'JAN');The Salesforce data types that we're aware of that requires an alternative approach are text area and long text area. For example:
INSERT INTO
MYSALESFORCELINKEDSERVER.SF.DBO.Product2 (Name, Description, Family)
VALUES
(
'Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver',
'ODBC Driver for Oracle 8-23',
'Easysoft Data Access'
)is a valid insert statement, but fails because SQL Server does not support what it is attempting to do:
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "MYSALESFORCELINKEDSERVER" returned message "Query-based insertion or updating of BLOB values is not supported.".
and you need to use an alternative to work around this:
EXEC (
'INSERT INTO Product2 ( [Name], ProductCode, [Description] ) VALUES ( ''Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver'', ''ODBC Driver for Oracle 8-23'', ''Easysoft Data Access'')'
) AT MYSALESFORCELINKEDSERVEROur insert related articles are:
INSERT INTO from SQL Server to change Salesforce data
Update examples: