Your nightly SQL Server extract takes eleven minutes and moves 40,000 rows. Maybe 200 of them actually changed. The other 39,800 get re-read, re-transformed, and re-loaded because nothing told your pipeline which rows were new. That’s the problem Change Data Capture (CDC) solves in SQL Server: instead of re-scanning a table to find what’s different, […]
An honest, feature-first comparison for teams that need Salesforce data living in their own database or warehouse. TL;DRThe best Salesforce replication tool depends on your goal. DBSync Cloud Replication leads for teams that need a queryable, bidirectional copy of Salesforce inside their own database for reporting, backup, and disaster recovery. Fivetran and Skyvia suit warehouse-only […]
What is Salesforce ELT? Salesforce ELT is the process of pulling data out of Salesforce (Extract), writing it into a destination in something close to its raw form (Load), and only then reshaping it into its final structure (Transform) using the compute power of the destination system itself, rather than a separate transformation engine sitting […]
What is a Salesforce data pipeline ? A Salesforce data pipeline is the set of processes that move records into, out of, and between Salesforce and the other systems your business runs on ERPs, data warehouses, marketing platforms, support desks. At small volumes, people handle this with reports and manual exports. Once you’re pushing tens […]
Heroku Connect users got some unwelcome news in February 2026: Salesforce put Heroku into sustaining mode, which means the sync tool sitting in your revenue path is no longer being actively developed. This guide walks through what to move to, how the main alternatives actually compare, and how to migrate without dropping a single write. […]
You’ve decided to move. You open the AWS Database Migration Service documentation, follow it carefully, and about twenty minutes in, you hit a wall: DMS wants a user with the REPLICATION role, and Heroku won’t give you one. That’s not a configuration mistake. Heroku Postgres doesn’t grant customers the superuser role, and it doesn’t let […]
A step-by-step setup guide: connect SQL Server, configure Databricks, run the sync, and automate it. Companion to the webinar recording: This guide is the written companion to the SQL Server-to-Databricks replication webinar. It stands on its own: use it to set up and run the sync end to end, whether or not you watched the […]
HubSpot CRM replication is the process of copying HubSpot CRM data into another database, data warehouse, or analytics platform while preserving original records. It gives data teams access to CRM data for analytics, reporting, and business intelligence without relying on HubSpot as the primary source for every query. This guide will walk through what HubSpot […]
Your CRM says 20,000 customers. Marketing’s platform says 15,400. And finance just sent the same company two invoices, from two different customer records. Three symptoms, one disease: duplicate records. This guide shows you how to find them, merge them without breaking anything, and, the part most teams skip, stop creating them in the first place. […]
A step-by-step setup guide: connect HubSpot, configure your database, run the sync, and automate it. Companion to the webinar recording This guide is the written companion to the HubSpot to SQL Server replication webinar. It stands on its own: use it to set up and run the sync end to end, whether or not you […]
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