I learned something new today and thought it should be passed on. In an earlier post I wrote about how the Data Loader will not insert null values when using the Bulk API. It turns out that the API will insert null values but you need to use the text '#N/A' as the value instead of leaving the value blank. [...]
Part of the Salesforce Winter '10 release was something that the release notes and folks at salesforce.com refer to as the Bulk API. Also, you may have read that the 'Bulk Loader' is now available and it will now take longer to count the records than it will to load them, blah, blah, blah... Since I work with customers that have large numbers of records I thought I would look into getting the 'Bulk Loader' and using it to tweak some 3 million account records in a Sandbox. [...]
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