Asynchronous big object SOQL queries

Synchronous queries described in the previous section are generally only suitable for when you know specifically what the user is looking for and are confident you can reduce the query results to a level that can be handled in real time and within the synchronous Apex limits. The key features of Async SOQL are as follows:

  • Asynchronous queries bypass query limits because they run in the background. They are focused on allowing you to perform aggregations to learn more information from the full dataset of billions of records, or a smaller subset of the data.
  • You can also use them to extract a filtered subset of the raw data and place it into a Custom Object for further reporting and querying using the full ...

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