Connect to Salesforce Marketing Data in Aqua Data Studio

The CData JDBC Driver for Salesforce Marketing integrates Salesforce Marketing data with wizards and analytics in IDEs like Aqua Data Studio. This article shows how to connect to Salesforce Marketing data through the connection manager and execute queries.

Create a JDBC Data Source

You can use the connection manager to define connection properties and save them in a new JDBC data source. The Salesforce Marketing data source can then be accessed from Aqua Data Studio tools.

1. In Aqua Data Studio, select Register Server from the Servers menu.
2. In the Register Server form, select the 'Generic - JDBC' connection.
3. Enter the following JDBC connection properties:
   • Name: Enter a name for the data source; for example, Salesforce Marketing.
   • Driver Location: Click the Browse button and select the cdata.jdbc.sfmarketingcloud.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
   • Driver: Enter the Driver's class name, cdata.jdbc.sfmarketingcloud.SFMarketingCloudDriver.

   • URL: Enter the JDBC URL, which starts with jdbc:sfmarketingcloud: and is followed by a semicolon-separated list of connection properties.

     Authenticating to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

     Set the User and Password to your login credentials, or to the credentials for a sandbox user if you are connecting to a sandbox account.

     Connecting to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs

     By default, the data provider connects to production environments. Set UseSandbox to true to use a Salesforce Marketing Cloud sandbox account.

     The default Instance is s7 of the Web Services API; however, if you use a different instance, you can set Instance.

     Built-in Connection String Designer

     For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Salesforce Marketing JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

     java -jar cdata.jdbc.sfmarketingcloud.jar

     Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

     A typical JDBC URL is below:
     jdbc:sfmarketingcloud:User=myUser;Password=myPassword;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH

Query Salesforce Marketing Data

You can now query the tables exposed.