The order in which Salesforce executes certain actions is one of the most important concepts that every admin and developer should know by heart.
As developers, we need to grasp how the platform will process and validate the data that we are inserting, updating, deleting, and even undeleting in the Salesforce database. Like any system, the rules in Salesforce follow a very specific pattern, known as the order of execution. Over time, your org will get more and more customized with validation rules, workflow rules, processes, assignment rules, escalation rules, entitlements, and most probably, lots of programmatic logic and automation.
As a developer or admin, we need to understand exactly how the system works. So, we'll explain all the steps Salesforce performs on each and every DML statement, no matter if it originated through the user interface, through...