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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide
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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

by Jan Vandevelde, Gunther Roskams
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
12h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Upserting records

Upserting records is the combination of inserting and updating records. The user needs to have access to Create and Edit on the object that we need to upsert. But when should you use this functionality? This functionality is very useful when writing code for integration with other systems.

A table with data in a different database system will probably have another unique key. A company can have a database with the contacts of a company, and their key is the email address (because it should be a unique reference). Based on this unique reference, Salesforce can decide whether a record already exists.

Based on that decision, Salesforce will insert your record if the email address does not exist in the table with contacts, or ...

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