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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition

by Jason Ouellette
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Database Queries

You’ve seen how data structures in Apex are implicitly defined by the objects in your database. Force.com provides two query languages to populate these objects with data: Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) and Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL). SOSL, addressed in Chapter 5, “Advanced Business Logic,” provides unstructured, full-text search across many objects from a single query.

The focus of this section is SOQL because it is the workhorse of typical business applications. This section includes subsections on the basics of SOQL, filtering and sorting, how to query related objects, and how to use SOQL from Apex code.

As you read this section, you can experiment with the sample SOQL queries using the Force.com IDE’s ...

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