Can you read data from Salesforce to Heroku?
Heroku Connect automatically chooses the most efficient method to transfer data between your database and your Salesforce organization by employing a set of best practices that take into account data change volume and the many subtle details of Salesforce API operation. This is true for both reading from and writing to Salesforce.
Where do I get my Heroku data from?
All of this is done by reference: the data remains in Heroku Postgres, but it can be read from and, in most cases, written to from within Salesforce. The PostgreSQL data that we’ll use is from a sample DVD rental database.
How can I change the timezone of my Heroku server?
You can change it by setting an env var to TZ=America/New_York or whatever, but I highly recommend you don’t. It’s really good practice to keep all your server stuff (Heroku, CMS, etc.) in sync at UTC, and to only change this when displaying times clientside with something like Luxon.
How often do I need to update my Heroku database?
Heroku Connect will poll your database for updates every two minutes, unless it detects an update from a pg_notify trigger. These polls are limited to at most every 10 seconds. When Connect polls the database and finds changes it will begin to write changes back to Salesforce. These intervals are set internally and therefore not configurable.
How does Heroku connect work with Postgres data?
The data in Postgres is exposed as an external object and queried on access to facilitate real-time integration by reference, so you can access fresh data without needless copies. Heroku Connect provides an API to automate the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of sync operations.
Which is the best database as a service for Heroku?
Heroku Postgres is a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management. With features like forking and following, data rollbacks, data clips, and multi-ingress, working with Postgres has never been more powerful and intuitive.
How to export a configuration file in Heroku?
You can export a configuration file from the Heroku Connect dashboard, by clicking Settings, then click Import/Export Configuration, then click the Export Configuration button. This endpoint accepts the configuration details either as a standard file upload or directly as JSON in the request body.