Which operations can we perform on Dataloader in Salesforce?

Hello Madhulika,

Operations that can  be performed on dataloader are:

1. Insert: Inserting brand new records
2. Update: Updating the existing records based on the record ID
3. Upsert: To Upsert we should have one external ID field on the object, based on the external id field if the value already exists it will update, if doesn't exist then it will insert
4. Delete: Delete the records based on the id provided, to delete we need only id, deleted records can be found in recycle bin.
5. Hard delete: Delete the records based on the id provided, to delete we need only id, deleted records can't be found in recycle bin.
6. Export: From any object we can export records based on the SOQL query, Note: We can't export deleted records which are there in the recycle bin.
7. Export all: From any object we can export records based on the SOQL query, Note: Using Export all we can export deleted records which are there in the recycle bin also.