Inventory of Data Extensions and their data sources

It’s very likely that at some point in your career you will inherit or take over a Salesforce Marketing Cloud instance that has been set up and used by someone else in the past. In case it hasn’t been well documented, it can be a struggle to understand all the data related processes and clean … Read more

Retrieve tracking data since account inception using WSProxy

Whether you’re building a data warehouse or are dealing with a legal compliance issue, access to historical tracking data from your Salesforce Marketing Cloud account using the out-of-the-box features is limited. Data Views are powerful, but only allow you to query for up to six months of subscriber and tracking information. Tracking extracts provide granular … Read more

Query Studio for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

The ability to write and automate SQL queries in Automation Studio is an indispensable feature when it comes to working with data in Salesforce Marketing Cloud. The current SQL query editor in Automation Studio is very rudimentary and makes it almost impossible to debug SQL queries. It can be very time consuming and frustrating to… Read more

Data Views in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Data Views are a powerful feature of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. They store subscriber information and the last six months of tracking data for your account. While they cannot be accessed or viewed from the UI, they can be used like any other data extension: you can write a query against a data view in Automation… Read more