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The Connect XE Drivers : The Salesforce Driver : Connection Option Descriptions : Host Name
 

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Host Name

Attribute

HostName (HOST)

Purpose

The base Salesforce URL to use for logging in. If you are logging into a Salesforce instance other than the default, you must provide the root of the Salesforce URL.

Valid Values

url
where:
url
is the is the root of the Salesforce URL to which you want to connect.

Example

Suppose you have a Salesforce instance that is configured with a production instance and a sandbox instance. You can specify login.salesforce.com as the value for the HostName attribute to connect to the production instance or test.salesforce.com to connect to the sandbox instance:
Salesforce Instance
URL
Production
login.salesforce.com
Sandbox
test.salesforce.com

Default

login.salesforce.com

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