Fetching All Fields in Salesforce – Spring 2021 Edition
In Salesforce, the Standard Query Language (SQL) didn’t have a great way of doing SELECT * or select all fields but that changed in Spring 2021.
How to Select All Fields in 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.…
Apex: How to Dynamically Tell if a Salesforce Field Exists
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…