The Data Integration Service can use the Salesforce Bulk API to write data to Salesforce objects. Use the Bulk API to write large amounts of data to Salesforce with a minimal number of API calls.

With a Bulk API write, each batch of data can contain up to 10,000 records or one million characters of data in CSV format. When the Data Integration Service creates a batch, it adds required characters such as, quotation marks around text, to format the data.

You can configure a Bulk API target session to load batches serially or in parallel. By default, the data load is in parallel mode, but you can override the data load to serial mode. You can also monitor the progress of batches in the session log.

To configure a session to use the Bulk API for Salesforce targets, select the Use SFDC Bulk API session property. When you select this property, the Data Integration Service ignores the Max Batch Size session property.