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SOQL Basics (Salesforce Object Query Language)
What You’ll Learn
- What is SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)?
- When to use SOQL?
Topics
- SOQL Basics (Salesforce Object Query Language)
- How to Write SOQL in APEX
- SOQL Variable Binding in APEX
- SOQL Keywords
- SOQL Date Literals In Salesforce
- SOQL Aggregate Query
- Child to Parent Relationship
- Parent to Child – Relationship Queries in SOQL
- SOQL Multi level Relationships
- SOQL Return Type
- Salesforce Dynamic SOQL
- SOQL ’for’ Loops
What is SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)?
Salesforce Object Query Language. It is used to retrieve data from the Salesforce database according to the specified conditions and objects. Similar to all Apex code, SOQL is also case insensitive.
When to use SOQL?
Use SOQL when you know which objects the data resides in, and you want to:
- Retrieve data from a single object or from multiple objects that are related to one another.
- Count the number of records that meet the specified criteria.
- Sort results as part of the query.
- Retrieve data from number, date, or checkbox fields.
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