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Salesforce Development Basics: Apex Triggers, SOQL and Governor Limits

Writing bulk-safe Apex and understanding the limits that shape every Salesforce design.

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  1. Governor limits cap queries, DML and CPU per transaction.
  2. Triggers must handle up to 200 records at once.
  3. One trigger per object with a handler class keeps logic testable.

Programming on a shared platform

Salesforce runs many customers on shared infrastructure, so it enforces governor limits per transaction: a maximum number of SOQL queries, DML statements, CPU time and heap. Code that ignores them fails the moment real data arrives.

Good Salesforce development is therefore bulk-first: assume every trigger receives a list of records, never a single one.

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  1. Bulkification in practice
  2. A bulk-safe trigger
  3. Beyond Apex
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