Data management operations
You already know that the MVC model of the Force.com platform detaches the business logic from the presentation layer and the data. Therefore, the Force.com platform provides various data management operations as follows:
- Exporting Data: The Force.com platform provides data exporting operations to download all the data of the organization and makes periodic backups of certain objects. This operation can be used to get reference IDs of particular records to perform the insert or update operation of those records.
- Inserting Data: You can insert new records to standard or custom objects of your organization. For example, you can insert the user's list and load the existing employee records.
- Updating Data: Updating data is useful in the Force.com platform to perform a de-duplication of existing data that removes duplicate records.
- Upserting Data: The Upsert operation is a combination of the Update and Insert operations. It is used to keep the Salesforce organization...
