Salesforce, the leading provider of software for customer relations management, announced that it will implement a price increase for some of its cloud and marketing tools starting in August.

The company’s decision to raise prices, the first in seven years, was met with a positive market response as its shares surged nearly 4% during early trading on Tuesday.

  • dan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Indeed. It’s okay though, the same behaviour can be trivially achieved with this simple function:

    String table = 'table_name';
    String query_string = 'SELECT ';
    List<String> table_list = new List<String>();
    table_list.add(table);
    
    Set<String> table_rows = schema.describeSObjects(table_list)[0].fields.getMap().keyset();
    for(String row : table_rows){
        query_string += row + ',';
    }
    query_string = query_string.removeEnd(','); //remove trailing comma
    query_string += ' FROM ' + table;
    
    Database.query(query_string);
    

    Which I’m sure you’ll agree is much more enterprise.

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      1 year ago

      Oh man that code is gross. I guess they went with a proprietary sql build in an attempt to lock people in?

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        1 year ago

        Haha yep. I can’t imagine anyone’s seriously using that code, and actually there’s a lot to be said for specifying the fields in your queries rather then just getting everything (cos things can change), but not having select * is just ridiculously hostile to new users just trying to get a feel for the data.

        But that’s very Salesforce. They’ve redesigned SQL so it’s “better”.

        Imagine that attitude applied to an entire platform. It’s not bad, per se - it’s pretty consistent, stable and mature. But it’s certainly spiky and difficult to use compared to other ecosystems.