Fast, reliable Apex leans on three pillars: relationship queries, aggregate SOQL, and thoughtful subqueries—while steering clear of N+1 patterns. Nail these and your code stays bulkified, selective, and governor-limit friendly. Relationship SOQL (child → parent): follow lookups with dot notation Concept: Pull fields from a parent record in the same...
If you want blazing-fast SOQL, your filters have to be selective. In practice, that means your WHERE clause narrows things enough for Salesforce to rely on an index. Use the Query Plan tool to see what the optimizer intends to do and shape your filters to hit standard, custom, or...
These tools let you tailor Salesforce so each team sees the right fields, the right options, and the right flow—without cloning objects or creating chaos. Think of them as your toolkit for shaping UX and data quality around real business processes. Record Types Record Types let you present different processes,...
In Salesforce (and most CRMs), your relationship design defines how records connect and behave. The big three to know: Master-Detail, Lookup, and Junction objects for many-to-many. Roll-ups—native or custom—sit on top to summarize child data. Master-Detail Relationship ?️ A tight parent-child link where the parent controls the child. Parental control:...
Introduction In Salesforce, data modeling sits at the core of everything—APIs, automation, UI, analytics, all of it. Beyond standard and custom objects, you’ve also got External Objects for virtualized data, Big Objects for massive, append-only datasets, and polymorphic fields (like WhatId/WhoId) for flexible relationships. This guide gives Developers, Admins, and...
