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K. KapitanovSalesforce Developer I CertificationCertification Study Companion Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0300-0_5

5. Data Manipulation Language (DML)

Konstantin Kapitanov1  
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Borås, Sweden
 

5.1 DML Statements and Operations

DML refers to the set of statements and operations that you can use to interact with records in the Salesforce database. DML operations are used to create, retrieve, update, and delete records in various Salesforce objects, such as custom and standard objects like accounts, contacts, opportunities, and more.

Salesforce provides a set of DML statements that you can use in your Apex code to perform these operations. You can execute ...

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