Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

Inserting records

To insert records into the database, the user needs the create permissions for that object. If we want to insert records, we use the DML statement insert, or Database.insert(Object). I'll explain the two methods to insert records into the database.

When you want to insert records, you can insert only one record or a list of records. Pay attention; it's only a list of records (not a Set or Map with records). Most of the time, you prepare the records in a variable and insert that variable (that corresponds with your record or list of records) into the database; an example is as follows:

Movie__c newMovie = new Movie__c(Name = 'Grease', Genre__c = 'Family');Insert newMovie;

With this code, you prepare a movie object with the ...