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I just gave it a go and am super impressed with the Salesforce connector, most of the tools I've tried are awful for SFDC (including data sync tools like airbyte etc)

I loaded in around 100k rows and performance was fantastic.

I think the only feature so far I haven't found is whether there is a way to join tables together in the app. With SFDC particularly it doesn't seem to have an option to write the SOQL query directly, and I can't access relationships with the field builder, so I have no easy way to do a client side join (apart from a ton of VLOOKUPs which is not ideal)

I do love how calculated columns stay even after I re-query the source data, that and the auto-expanding are killer features.

Super exciting product, very polished, I can't wait to see where it goes.

PS. $18/mo for the pro version with scheduled queries is an absolute steal

Oh what was not working with Airbyte? (Airbyte co-founder that is very interested to see how we can improve it ;) )

Hey! Airbyte was working in theory, but it was not very user friendly to handle a large Salesforce instance (this was for a client of mine with 100k+ employees)

I've just given it another go with Airbyte Cloud and I think some of the issues I had have been fixed (I remember back when I tested it was pretty clunky to select tables to sync with hundreds of custom tables) because I didn't have any major problems.

One thing that is a showstopper that is probably very specific to my use case is it doesn't allow you to filter tables before syncing, my client has offices worldwide but I mostly work within a couple regions so some of the tables I want to sync I would like to put a filter on as they have a "Market" custom field for the country.

I can of course just sync everything and then filter on the destination but as a consultant I'm wary to sync data that I have no business working with, plus it would increase the data size of the sync massively.

Overall I do love airbyte though! it's a great tool, and I use it for other data sources, just didn't work for me in this specific case

EDIT: I just noticed I was unnnecessarily harsh in the parent comment, I was more thinking about other tools that have very basic SFDC integration (only standard tables, no custom tables/fields) – airbyte's integration is overall good, it just didn't work for my specific usecase

Thanks so much for the kind words and glad it resonates!

Joins are coming very very soon. Stay tuned.

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