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...
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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...
