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Struggling to process massive datasets in Salesforce with Apex? Buckle up, because Apex Cursors (currently in Beta) are here to save the day! What are Apex Cursors? Imagine a fire hose of data spewing out a SOQL query.  Normally, Apex would try to hold the entire stream in memory, which can be overwhelming for both your code and Salesforce's resources.  Apex Cursors act like a bucket, allowing you to process the data in manageable chunks. Benefits of Apex Cursors Handle Large Datasets: Don't be intimidated by millions of records. Cursors break them down into bite-sized pieces for efficient processing. Flexibility: Need to pause and come back later? No problem! Cursors allow you to navigate forward and backward through the results. Queueable Power: Unlike Batch Apex, Cursors integrate seamlessly with queueable jobs, making them ideal for high-volume, high-resource tasks. How Cursors Work Stateless Processing: Each chunk of data is processed independently, keeping memory usa...

  Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Trailblazer Profile  |  LinkedIn  |  Salesforce Blog  |  Facebook  |  Youtube Channel  |  WhatsApp Community Queueable Apex is just another flavor of Async Programming implementation offered by the Salesforce Platform.  You can refer to my earlier posts on Queueable Job to get a context around this concept: Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to implement Queueable Apex Job Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to chain Queueable Apex Job Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to monitor Queueable Apex Job In this article, we will explore how to call a Queueable Job from within the Trigger.  We can start with a simple demo to explain the concept in the following steps:     Step-1: Create a brand new Apex Class to implement the Queueable Job. Step-2: We need to define a Constructor to call the Queueable Job from a Trigger & p...

  Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Trailblazer Profile  |  LinkedIn  |  Salesforce Blog  |  Facebook  |  Youtube Channel  |  WhatsApp Community Queueable Apex is just another flavor of Async Programming implementation offered by the Salesforce Platform.  You can refer to my earlier posts on Queueable Job to get a context around this concept: Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to implement Queueable Apex Job Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to chain Queueable Apex Job   In this article, we will explore how to monitor the progress of a Queueable Job using Async Job Id returned.    We can start with a simple demo to explain the concept in the following steps:     Step-1: The source of data for this demo will “Contacts” Object as shown below. Using the same records that we modified in the last demo. In this demo, we will be running a delete record opera...

  Looking for Salesforce Training & HandsOn Projects? Trailblazer Profile  |  LinkedIn  |  Salesforce Blog  |  Facebook  |  Youtube Channel  |  WhatsApp Community Queueable Apex is just another flavor of Async Programming implementation offered by the Salesforce Platform.   You can refer to my earlier post on Queueable Job to start fresh with the concept: Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to implement Queueable Apex Job In this article, we will explore how to chain one Queueable Job from another to accomplish a series of tasks in a predictable manner.   We can start with a simple demo to explain the concept in the following steps:     Step-1: The source of data for this demo will  “Accounts”  Object as shown below Step-2: We need to build the “SOQL” statement that we can use to query the data from Queueable Job. We can quickly build & test the SOQL using “Workbench” . This step will...