Data modeling

If you are a database administrator, you will certainly be able to map your existing knowledge to some of the concepts we are going to talk about. However, if you have no database administration experience or prior knowledge, don't worry, as this will require no prerequisites. When I began my career, I had minute knowledge about this platform as well.

So, let's start with a simple day-to-day scenario of credit card transactions that we do online while we are shopping on an online portal. You might have wondered where all the data that you type in the form goes. The answer is a database. A database for a layman is a dark disk or chip where the data resides. Let's be more logical at this point and think from an application's point of view; the database will consist of various objects.

Your organization, once purchased from Salesforce, will already consist of some out-of-the-box objects that are used in normal sales and service processes. You will see that...