What's new in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.4.1

Mar 28, 2024
  • Fixed the issue when establishing a connection with a connection string that contains unsupported parameters

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.4.0 (Mar 14, 2024)

  • Now tokens and passwords are stored in an encrypted form in the DSN record
  • Added metadata cache
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker Server for Linux and macOS
  • Fixed connection timeout setting before opening connection

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.3.1 (Oct 4, 2023)

  • Fixed bug with driver license validation for Linked Server in MSSMS
  • Fixed bug with reading DATETIMEs columns in Tableau

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.3.0 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Added support for macOS ARM (Apple Silicon M1 and M2)
  • Improved compatibility with 4D in macOS
  • Fixed bug with getting data in DBeaver
  • Fixed bug with SQL aggregate functions for MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.2.0 (May 17, 2023)

  • Added support for multilevel relations in SOQL queries
  • Added support for SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute
  • Improved compatibility with Linked Server in SQL Server
  • Improved compatibility with Visual Basic in Visual Studio
  • Improved compatibility with Alteryx
  • Fixed bug with updating data in the "Case" table for Linked Server in SQL Server
  • Fixed bug with SELECT that contains JOIN for Linked Tables in MS Access
  • Fixed bug with retreving UTC time

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 3.1.0 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
  • Improved compatibility with Tableau Prep Builder
  • Improved compatibility with Crystal Reports
  • Fixed bug when a connection string parameter value contains a single quote
  • Fixed an issue with adding DSN in PowerShell
  • Fixed an issue with rows deleting

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 2.2.1 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Added support for Windows 11
  • Improved compatibility with Linked Server in MSSMS
  • Improved compatibility with FICO Mosel
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker
  • Improved support for an ODBC installer on Windows 2000
  • Fixed an issue with updating date and time fields in MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 2.1.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added
  • Bug with an incorrect URL in OAuth 2.0 is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 2.0.1 (Apr 27, 2021)

  • OAuth authorization is supported
  • The ability to execute SOQL queries is added
  • Bug with modifying data using the Linked Server is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.8.1 (Dec 9, 2020)

  • The ReturnForeignKeys connection option to significantly improve performance is added
  • Compatibility with Visual Studio is improved
  • SQLProcedures now returns an empty recordset instead of an error
  • SQLProcedureColumns now returns an empty recordset instead of an error

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.7.19 (Apr 8, 2020)

  • Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
  • Compatibility with Visual Basic is improved
  • Compatibility with RStudio is improved
  • Bug with fetching by Bookmark is fixed
  • Bug with modifying data using SQLSetPos is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.7.18 (Jan 20, 2020)

  • Connection UTCDates option is added

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.7.17 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • Performance of obtaining metadata is improved
  • Support for connection pooling is improved
  • Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges
  • The IncludeDeleted connection option, which allows including deleted records into resultsets, is added

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.7.16 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • Possibility to force the ODBC 2.x behavior is added

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.6.15 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Possibility to show used connection string in the connection dialog is added

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.6.14 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • Possibility to return String Types as Ansi or Unicode is added
  • Compatibility with MS Access is improved
  • Compatibility with Tableau is improved
  • Compatibility with Omnis Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
  • Compatibility with DBeaver is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.5.13 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Environment selection is added
  • Connection Timeout option is added
  • Query Timeout option is added

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.4.12 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • Compatibility with MS Excel 64-bit is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.4.11 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • Compatibility with SAS JMP is improved
  • Compatibility with MS Power Query is improved
  • OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries are supported
  • DateTime macros in SQL queries are supported
  • Scalar function macros in SQL queries are supported

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.3.10 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • Compatibility with Adobe ColdFusion is improved
  • Several issues with data modification in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio are resolved
  • Now "." is a decimal separator for numbers with floating point by default

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.3.9 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is improved
  • Bug when administrator privileges are required is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.3.8 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Compatibility with MS Visual Studio
  • Compatibility with MS FoxPro is improved
  • Compatibility with MapInfo is improved
  • Compatibility with Libre Office is improved
  • Compatibility with Qlik is improved
  • Compatibility with Delphi & C++Builder is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.2.7 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Support for linked tables in MS Access is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.2.6 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Compatibility with MS Excel is improved
  • Compatibility with ODBC 2.x is improved
  • Critical bug in 64-bit driver is fixed
  • Bug with Trial expiration in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is fixed
  • Bug with reading the "Deleted" column is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.2.5 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved
  • Issue with "Linked server error message 7399" in SQL Server Management Studio is fixed
  • Issue with TLS 1.1 is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.1.4 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft Visual FoxPro is improved
  • Columns with the Formula data type support is improved
  • Some bugs in 64-bit driver were fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.1.3 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with MS Access is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.0.2 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Bug with 64-bit driver registration is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Salesforce 1.0.1 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • First release of ODBC Driver for Salesforce
  • Windows 32-bit is supported
  • Windows 64-bit is supported