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Salesforce ingestion connector reference

This page contains reference material for the Salesforce ingestion connector in Databricks Lakeflow Connect.

Automatic data transformations

Databricks transforms Salesforce data types to Delta-compatible data types as follows:

Salesforce Type

Delta Type

Auto Number

String

Checkbox

Boolean

Currency

DecimalType(18,2)

Date

DateType

Time

String

DateTime

Timestamp

Email

String

ID

String

Lookup Relationship

String

Multi-Select Picklist

String (For a currency picklist with the values “USD” and “Euro,” the column would include the values “USD” and “Euro.” )

Number

Decimal

Percent

Double

Phone

String

Picklist

String

Text

String

Text Area

String

Text Area (Long)

String

Text Area (Rich)

String

Text (Encrypted)

String

URL

String

* Site.DailyBandwidthUsed (Int)

Float

* Site.DailyRequestTimeUsed (Int)

Float

  • The Salesforce API returns Site.DailyBandwidthUsed and Site.DailyRequestTimeUsed as float instead of int.
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