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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        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.