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Learning Force.com Application Development
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Learning Force.com Application Development

by Chamil Madusanka
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
406 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Force.com platform query languages

The query languages are used to access data for data manipulation. There are two query languages in the Force.com platform:

  1. Salesforce.com Object Query Language (SOQL)
  2. Salesforce.com Object Search Language (SOSL)

Both of these languages are used to retrieve a set of data from the Force.com platform.

Salesforce.com Object Query Language (SOQL)

We assume that you are already familiar with query language such as SQL, which is the universal standard for interacting with relational databases. In the Force.com platform, we considered the data repository of the Force.com platform as the relational database. Therefore, we use SOQL instead of SQL for data-retrieving purposes. There are similarities as well as differences in ...

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ISBN: 9781782172796Supplemental Content