Salesforce provides powerful ways to retrieve and search data, with SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) and SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) being two of the most commonly used options. Although both are used to find Salesforce data, they serve different purposes. A simple way to remember the difference is: SOQL is used to query specific… Read More: SOQL vs SOSL in Salesforce: Key Differences and Real-World Use… »
Processing large volumes of records is a common requirement in Salesforce. Traditionally, Batch Apex has been the preferred approach for processing large datasets asynchronously. With the introduction of Apex Cursors, developers now have another option for working with large SOQL result sets. Apex Cursors became generally available in Spring ’26 (API version 66.0) and provide… Read More: Apex Cursors vs. Batch Apex: Which Salesforce Data Processing Approach… »
Salesforce runs Apex in a multi-tenant environment, where multiple organizations share the same computing resources. To ensure fair resource usage and maintain platform performance, Salesforce enforces Governor Limits hard limits on database operations, CPU usage, and memory consumption. Some of the most important governor limits include: This is where Bulkification becomes essential. Bulkification is the… Read More: How to Write Bulkified Apex Code in Salesforce to Avoid… »
As Salesforce applications grow in complexity and handle larger datasets, Apex Heap Size Limit errors become one of the most common governor limit exceptions developers encounter. Apex heap size issues occur when a single transaction consumes more memory than Salesforce allocates. These errors are rarely caused by incorrect code. Instead, they typically arise when otherwise… Read More: How to Manage Apex Heap Size in Salesforce and Avoid… »
