Beginning Salesforce Developer

© Michael Wicherski 2017

Michael Wicherski, Beginning Salesforce Developer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3300-9_3

3. Structure of Data

Michael Wicherski¹ 

(1)Los Angeles, California, USA

Recall from Chapter 1 our discussion of metadata and how instances are all defined by it. In this chapter, we are going to elaborate on how all data is stored on force.com. In simplest terms, everything is an object, and has records specific to your instance. Table 3-1 can be used as a reference for terminology you may be more familiar with to represent the concepts of objects, records, and fields.

Table 3-1 Comparison of Terminology Regarding Ddata

force.com	Spreadsheet	SQL	Object-Oriented Programming
Object	Sheet	Table	Class / object
Field	Column	Column