Salesforce gives you two solid ways to find data: SOQL for precise, table-style queries, and SOSL for full-text, cross-object search. Layer on smart search tuning (filters, wildcards, snippets) to surface relevant results quickly. And for read-heavy orgs, Skinny Tables can help — but they have trade-offs and should be used...
Performance optimization
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...
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...
Introduction Salesforce is multi-tenant at its core: many customers share the same runtime, database fabric, and services, while each org’s data and metadata stay logically isolated. To keep this shared environment fast and fair, Salesforce enforces governor (trust) limits—caps on resource usage at the transaction and org level. With Hyperforce,...
