Great tool, but has a bug.

Prior to my current role, I worked as a SQL DBA and web developer. I found the transition to Salesforce challenging as I was not able to interrogate and easily manipulate the data in the same way, so was thrilled to discover this tool. It looks very similar to MSSMS, but I find it a bit slower. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because I'm frustrated by a particular bug and can't seem to get a response from support. I'm unable to update data directly in the result set as it saves any changes in lowercase despite how I entered the data. If I update data via a query, however, it updates correctly.

Thanks for your prompt response, Stephen. I am pleased to know my request is in your queue for further investigation and completely understand things take time to resolve. It's just challenging when you don't receive any communication, even to say a request had been received or placed in a queue, so I'm sure you can appreciate I was left wondering if my request would ever be addressed. In the meantime, I appreciate the work you're doing and products you're able to provide free of charge. :)

Hi Eloise--Thank you for taking time to write a review and for using Cloudingo Studio. I assure you, we have not forgotten you. Your question about casing remains in our queue. We just haven't had time to dig into it. We fully support Cloudingo Studio, and both the application and the support are provided free of charge. But because of these facts, sometimes we have to prioritize other matters. We're proud of our products, including Studio, and I promise you we'll address your question. But we have to dig into the application and do some research. And that just takes some time. Best regards, Steve Harding Symphonic Source, makers of Cloudingo Studio 972-241-1543

Nice, is very useful

It's a great application to query in SOQL on Salesforce, and you can export the query results in excel or a csv file

Hi Rodrigo, thanks for taking time to write a review. You can export your query results to CSV and/or Excel. In the lower right corner you'll see an Export button. Click it and then select the output format you want and you're done. I have a screenshot showing it, but I am not able to attach it here. Best, Stephen Harding Symphonic Source, makers of Cloudingo Studio

Great Tool for former SQL DBA's

If you were a SQL DBA before becoming a Salesforce Admin then this is the tool for you. I've been using it for almost a year and am very happy with what I can do with it. The interface is very similar to SSMS and being able to write SQL like queries to view the data has helped me in my job. It's also very powerful with being able to make data changes! I frequently use it to run queries and export the data out to do further analysis. I think I've only touched a small part of what this app can actually do! Thanks Symphonic Source for making my job easier!

Tech Support Is like...

I want to share with the community my experience I have had with Cloudingo Studio and the team that supports it. WOW for a free product the last two time that I have had an issue I sent a note in and with in less then an hour I got an email asking for more information and then with in the day the support team had a work around or a fix to the bug that I found. This is has been better then any Paid support for something I have paid 1000s for. I love the way I can quickly build my SOQL query and bring them into my APEX code. I like that I can look at the schema of an object and get to the data fast. If you have not tried Cloudingo Studio recently I would tell you that is a far better product now. Give it a shot.

Has great potential

I was impressed with the product considering that it is new and currently free. I found a few kinks and communicated to the company. They responded and thanked me for my feedback. Currently I find it very useful and better than the Force.com explore that has been in beta for over two years!. I recommend givin the product a try and with open mind that they will only improve on the product. No I have no ownership in the company! :)

Slow and Lacks support for complex multiple-object SOQL queries - use Workbench instead

After install--this is installed on your Windows PC, not running in salesforce--painfully slow UI response. Clicking the Connection to switch from Production to Sandbox took 5 seconds to switch the dropdown value. Ran a simple query--all fields in Account, limit 100--and responds with results about the same as Eclipse IDE or older salesforce products like Force.com Explorer or the Adobe Air app. Tried a saved .soql query, used with Dataloader and Apex code, on Contact pull also from Account (Account.Name) and this failed with syntax error. Use Salesforce Workbench instead.

I’m so sorry to hear that you are having issues. We sincerely appreciate you voicing this. As this is literally the first week the app has been live, we’ve got a couple known issues. One of them is the syntax highlighting issue that you pointed out. It is actually fixed in the latest release which should be live in the next day or so—hoping you’ll upgrade and take a second look. We’ve also made a number of performance enhancements over the last week. Even though this is a free app, we are 100% committed to supporting it and making it better. We’ve had such an amazing flood of cool ideas and enhancement requests over the last week that we’re plowing through them and prioritizing them as I write this. We would LOVE to work with you and see how we can get any issues you are seeing resolved. Not only for you but for the entire development community. Inside Cloudingo Studio on the help tab we have an option to request feature or file cases. These come directly to our engineers. Sincerely, Cloudingo Studio Team 972-241-1543

Major time saver! Not to mention, a free app that has backing!

I've been waiting for a tool like this ever since I moved over to the Force.com platform. I came over to the Force after working with Microsoft technologies for the last 8 years. What I missed and could not quite put my finger on was a tool that was more like what I was used to. What I love about this company (Symphonic Source, makers of Dupecatcher and Cloudingo) is that they genuinely care about the community. I actually first heard about this product at the Dallas Salesforce Developers Group. I got to be a part of the beta and they integrated 95% of all the feedback that we gave. Some of the things that I find most useful: 1) The ability to build and test queries very quickly and export the results 2) Multiple query windows (hey, it sounds simple but Force Explorer doesn't do that) 3) You can be connected to multiple Salesfource orgs/users and swap back and forth via different query windows (just like how SQL Server Management Studio works) 4) SOQL+ is awesome! I love that I can write SQL queries and let Cloudingo Studio translate that into SOQL 5) Best of all, the support. Hands down, Symphonic has the best support on the AppExchange

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