Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the different types of objects in Salesforce and we looked at their usages and limitations. We then reviewed some specific field types and investigated details regarding their usage.

We explored database concepts including normalization and denormalization and what data modeling is. You also learned why Salesforce is different from other relational databases, at least from a tenant's perspective, and how it has been optimized for read operations. Next, we looked into some important design principles to consider when designing your data model.

We investigated the different relationships and their usages, limitations, and use cases. Next, we took a deep dive into Salesforce's multi-tenancy architecture, its different components, and how they come together to generate a virtual application at runtime that we, as users, interact with.

This chapter should have provided you with a solid foundation to be able to understand multi...