The Salesforce Data Loader is a software application that can be used to insert, update, or delete Salesforce records from a CSV or export Salesforce records to a CSV.
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The Salesforce Data Loader is a software application that is installed on a client machine and it can be run in a GUI mode or invoked via command line. The command line interface enables the automating of data loads and/or exports.
The Data Loader can be used to load between 50,000 and 5 million records, whereas the Salesforce Import Wizard is limited to importing a maximum of 50,000 records.
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