Connect to Salesforce Data as a Linked Server
Use the TDS Remoting feature of the ODBC Driver to set up a linked server for Salesforce data.
2018-07-27 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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Salesforce: A Very Straightforward Cloud Development Platform
Force.com is an enigma; a Platform-as-a-Service that is designed to appeal to a broad church of developers, to make it quick and easy to write simple cloud-based applications. Robert Sheldon explains, as simply as possible, why this unusual data-centric, and metadata-driven platform is attracting so much interest in the industry.
2015-01-05
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The Salesforce Platform: The Return of the Citizen Programmer
The current popularity of the Salesforce software development platform has taken the industry by surprise. The current IT culture favours the esoteric, yet here is a development platform geared to the idea that anyone can use it: a populist language like BASIC. Does this threaten the careers of professional developers?
2014-11-24
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