Brian Cline

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Tag: Dynamic SOQL

How to Select All Fields in SOQL

How to Select All Fields in SOQL

March 21, 2017Brian ClineSalesforceDynamic SOQL, Salesforce, SOQL

Instead of using Standard Query Language (SQL), Salesforce decided to create it’s own variation of the language for querying their databases. Salesforce Object Query Language, known as SOQL, has a basic syntax that is very similar to SQL but there’s some differences.…

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Apex: How to Dynamically Tell if a Salesforce Field Exists

March 29, 2016Brian Cline3 CommentsProgramming, SalesforceDescribe, Dynamic Apex, Dynamic SOQL, Salesforce

Lately, I’ve been working on a lot of dynamic apex and soql. I had a requirement to develop a custom appexchange app that could be dynamically querying objects based on a mapping that the admin had supplied and had stored in custom settings. Originally, I was querying to see if the field existed and returning…

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