Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on connecting, see Establishing a Connection.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to Salesforce. |
| User | Specifies the user ID of the authenticating Salesforce user account. |
| Password | Specifies the password of the authenticating user account. |
| SecurityToken | The security token used to authenticate access to the Salesforce account. |
| UseSandbox | A boolean determining if the connection should be made to a Salesforce sandbox account. |
| CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where token retrieved with OKTA MFA is saved. |
| Property | Description |
| APIVersion | The version of the Salesforce API used. |
| LoginURL | URL to the Salesforce server used for logging in. |
| Property | Description |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider, formatted as a semicolon-separated list. |
| SSOExchangeUrl | The URL used for consuming the SAML response and exchanging it for service specific credentials. |
| Property | Description |
| UseBulkAPI | Whether to use the synchronous SOAP API or the asynchronous Bulk API. |
| BulkAPIConcurrencyMode | The concurrency mode for processing bulk rows with BULK API v1. |
| BulkUploadLimit | The max file size in MB allowed to be ingested by the Bulk API V2. |
| BulkPollingInterval | The time interval in milliseconds between requests that check the availability of the bulk query response. The default value is 500 ms. |
| BulkQueryTimeout | The timeout in minutes for which the provider will wait for a bulk query response. The default value is 25 minutes. |
| WaitForBulkResults | Whether to wait for bulk results when using the asynchronous API. Only active when UseBulkAPI is true. |
| BulkAPIVersion | The version of the bulk API to use for processing queries. |
| Property | Description |
| UseToolingAPI | Whether to use the Salesforce Tooling API. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Specifies the process for obtaining or refreshing the OAuth access token, which maintains user access while an authenticated, authorized user is working. |
| OAuthClientId | Specifies the client Id that was assigned the custom OAuth application was created. (Also known as the consumer key.) This ID registers the custom application with the OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | Specifies the client secret that was assigned when the custom OAuth application was created. (Also known as the consumer secret ). This secret registers the custom application with the OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | A token received after authentication to the OAuth network, granting the user access. The access token is used in place of the user's login ID and password, which stay on the server. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | Specifies the location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved. Storing OAuth settings in a central location avoids the need for users to enter OAuth connection properties manually each time they log in. It also enables credentials to be shared across connections or processes. |
| CallbackURL | The URL users return to after authenticating to Salesforce via OAuth. |
| OAuthServerURL | The server URL to use if authenticating with OAuth. |
| OAuthGrantType | Specifies the grant type for the chosen OAuth flow. This value should be the same as the grant_type that was set during OAuth custom application creation. |
| OAuthAuthorizationURL | The authorization URL for the OAuth service. |
| OAuthAccessTokenURL | The URL to retrieve the OAuth access token from. |
| OAuthVerifier | Specifies a verifier code returned from the OAuthAuthorizationURL . Used when authenticating to OAuth on a headless server, where a browser can't be launched. Requires both OAuthSettingsLocation and OAuthVerifier to be set. |
| PKCEVerifier | The PKCE code verifier generated from executing the GetOAuthAuthorizationUrl stored procedure for PKCE authentication schemes. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | Gets and refreshes the currently-active OAuth Access Token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | Specifies the duration in seconds, of an OAuth Access Token's lifetime. The token can be reissued to keep access alive as long as the user keeps working. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | Displays a Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds that shows how long ago the current Access Token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate used to access a certificate store that requires a password. If the certificate store does not require a password, leave this property blank. |
| OAuthJWTCertSubject | The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate used to locate a matching certificate in the store. Supports partial matches and the wildcard '*' to select the first certificate. |
| OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
| OAuthJWTSubject | The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | Specifies the certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | Specifies the protocol the provider uses to tunnel traffic through a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | Identifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy used to traverse a firewall and relay user queries to network resources. |
| FirewallPort | Specifies the TCP port to be used for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | Identifies the user ID of the account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | Specifies the password of the user account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | Specifies whether the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations, rather than using a manually specified proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of the proxy server that you want to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port on your specified proxy server (set in the ProxyServer connection property) that has been reserved for routing HTTP traffic to and from the client. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | Specifies the authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | The username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyPassword | The password associated with the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the proxy server set in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | Specifes the file path to the log file where the provider records its activities, such as authentication, query execution, and connection details. |
| Verbosity | Specifies the verbosity level of the log file, which controls the amount of detail logged. Supported values range from 1 to 5. |
| LogModules | Specifies the core modules to include in the log file. Use a semicolon-separated list of module names. By default, all modules are logged. |
| MaxLogFileSize | Specifies the maximum size of a single log file in bytes. For example, '10 MB'. When the file reaches the limit, the provider creates a new log file with the date and time appended to the name. |
| MaxLogFileCount | Specifies the maximum number of log files the provider retains. When the limit is reached, the oldest log file is deleted to make space for a new one. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | Specifies the location of a directory containing schema files that define tables, views, and stored procedures. Depending on your service's requirements, this may be expressed as either an absolute path or a relative path. |
| BrowsableSchemas | Optional setting that restricts the schemas reported to a subset of all available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC . |
| Tables | Optional setting that restricts the tables reported to a subset of all available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC . |
| Views | Optional setting that restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC . |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Specifies whether the content of tables targeted by SELECT queries is automatically cached to the specified cache database. |
| CacheProvider | The namespace of an ADO.NET provider. The specified provider is used as the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheConnection | The connection string for the specified cache database. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | The tolerance, in seconds, for stale data in the specified cache database. |
| Offline | Get the data from the specified cache database instead of live Salesforce data. |
| CacheMetadata | Determines whether the provider caches table metadata to a file-based cache database. |
| Property | Description |
| AllOrNone | A boolean indicating if you would like all inserts, updates, or deletes to fail in a request if even a single record fails. |
| ArchiveMode | Boolean indicating whether to include deleted and archived records with a standard SELECT query. |
| ConnectionLifeTime | Specifies the maximum lifetime of a connection in seconds. When the specified time elapses, the provider closes the connection. Set to 0 or leave empty for no time limit. |
| ContinueOnAlterException | Whether you want to continue after a ALTER statement has failed. |
| ExposeConceptualEntities | Boolean determining if the Salesforce record types / conceptual entities should be exposed as tables. |
| FilterScope | Optional scope to limit the records returned from queries. |
| IncludeMetadataDescription | Set this property to a value other than NONE if you want to retrieve the descriptions for columns, tables or both of them from the Metadata API. |
| IncludeReports | Whether to expose Salesforce Reports as views. |
| MaxRows | Specifies the maximum rows returned for queries without aggregation or GROUP BY. |
| Other | Specifies additional hidden properties for specific use cases. These are not required for typical provider functionality. Use a semicolon-separated list to define multiple properties. |
| PoolIdleTimeout | Specifies the maximum idle time, in seconds, that a connection can remain in the pool before being closed. |
| PoolMaxSize | Specifies the maximum number of connections allowed in the connection pool. The default value is 100. Set to 0 or a negative value to disable pooling. |
| PoolMinSize | Specifies the minimum number of connections maintained in the connection pool. The default value is 1. |
| PoolWaitTime | Specifies the maximum number of seconds a connection request waits for an available connection in the pool. If the wait exceeds this time, an error is returned. The default is 60 seconds. |
| PseudoColumns | Specifies the pseudocolumns to expose as table columns. Use the format 'TableName=ColumnName;TableName=ColumnName'. The default is an empty string, which disables this property. |
| QueryPassthrough | Whether to accept SOQL queries. |
| Readonly | Toggles read-only access to Salesforce from the provider. |
| RemoveBOMCharacter | Specifies whether to remove the BOM character (char)0xfeff from the content. |
| RemovePrivateChar | Specifies whether to replace private use characters with a '?'. |
| ReplaceInvalidUTF8Chars | Specifies whether to replace invalid UTF8 characters with a '?'. |
| ReportExactPicklistLength | Whether to report the exact Salesforce length of picklist fields or report them with a length of 255. |
| RTK | Specifies the runtime key for licensing the provider. If unset or invalid, the provider defaults to the standard licensing method. Use this property only in environments where the standard licensing method is unsupported or requires a runtime key. |
| ServerSideAggregation | A boolean determining if server side aggregation should be used. |
| SessionTimeout | The time in minutes for which a Salesforce login session is reused. |
| SkipFormulaFields | Set to true if formula fields should be skipped when listing columns. |
| SkipPickListTranslation | A comma seperated list of columns to skip translation on. Example: Table1.Col1, Col3, ... ;. |
| SortColumns | Set to true to sort table columns instead of reporting them in the Salesforce order. |
| Timeout | Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that the provider waits for a server response before throwing a timeout error. The default is 60 seconds. Set to 0 to disable the timeout. |
| TranslatePickListFields | Whether to translate PickList fields into the language of the user. |
| UseConnectionPooling | Enables the connection pooling feature, which allows the provider to reuse existing connections instead of creating new ones for each request. |
| UseDisplayNames | Boolean determining if the display names for the columns should be used instead of the API names. |
| UserDefinedViews | Specifies a filepath to a JSON configuration file defining custom views. The provider automatically detects and uses the views specified in this file. |