Salesforce Record IDs
Before going ahead with discussing the concept of the data management, you have to understand the concept of Record IDs in Salesforce. As soon as you create any record in Salesforce, it will automatically generate a Record ID for you. The Record ID is a unique identifier of a record. We can get Record IDs in the following ways:
From the URL of the record detail view
By running the reports
From the web services API
From the formulas
From the data loader
Salesforce provides two types of Record IDs. They are as follows:
A 15-digit case-sensitive form: When you create a record from Salesforce UI, it will give you a 15-digit ID. We can use this in the URL and report. Reports do not expose IDs for all objects.
An 18-digit case-insensitive form: When we work with the data loader or an API tool, it will return an 18-digit ID. You can use this in the data loader. The API always returns the Record IDs in an 18-digit format, but you can use either the 15-digit or 18-digit format with...
