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Asynchronous Apex in Salesforce  Asynchronous Apex is used to run processes in a separate thread, at a later time. An asynchronous process is a process or function that executes a task "in the background" without the user having to wait for the task to finish. Here’s a real-world example. Let’s say you have a list of things to accomplish before your weekly Dance Revolution practice. Your car is making a funny noise, you need a different color hair gel and you have to pick up your uniform from your mom’s house. You could take your car to the mechanic and wait until it is fixed before completing the rest of your list (synchronous processing), or you could leave it there and get your other things done, and have the shop call you when it’s fixed (asynchronous processing). If you want to be home in time to iron your spandex before practice, asynchronous processing allows you to get more stuff done in the same amount of time without the needless waiting. Increased Governor and Exec...

  Apex Triggers in Salesforce A Trigger is a segment of Apex code which executes before or after inserting or modifying a Salesforce record based on the condition provided. There are different types of triggers based on the action going to be performed. What is Trigger in Salesforce ? Trigger in Salesforce is essentially an Apex script used by developers before or after events related to data manipulation language (DML). Here are some of the key types of operations executed by a trigger: 1. Inserting data into the system. 2. Updating data within the system. 3. Deleting data from the system. 4. Merging data across platforms. 5. Upserting data into the system. 6. Undeleting data from the system. What are different types of Triggers? Before triggers are used to perform a task before a record is inserted or updated or deleted. These are used to update or validate record values before they are saved to the database. After triggers are used if we want to use the information set by the...

Workflow Rule in Salesforce :     Workflow rules is an automation tool in Salesforce that offers time-saving solutions for making different internal processes of a company switch from manual work and for optimizing various procedures. Workflow in Salesforce is basically a container or business logic engine which automates certain actions based on particular criteria. If the criteria are met, the actions get executed. When they are not met, records will get saved but no action will get executed. Components of Workflow in Salesforce: Workflow rules in Salesforce can be broken down into two main components: Criteria : Criteria are conditions you are supposed to put in order to test a record. For example, if you’re from a technical background, what the if statement does in an if/then the condition is what criteria mean in a workflow. Actions : Actions occur after a record meets the criteria. Again, what the then statement does in the if/then the condition is what an action means i...

Salesforce Collections: List, Set, Map Collections are the group of similar types. There is no limit on the number of items a collection can hold. However, there is a general limit on heap size. There are three types of Salesforce collections. List Set Map 1. List: List is an ordered collection of elements which will allow duplicates. A list is an ordered collection of typed primitives SObjects, user-defined objects, Apex objects or collections that are distinguished by their includes. The index position of the first element in a list is always '0' List elements can be of any data type: primitive types, collections, sObjects, user-defined types, and built-in Apex types. A list is an ordered collection of elements that are distinguished by their indices. To declare a list, use the list. keyword followed by the primitive data, SObject, nested list, map, or set type within < >characters. List Syntax: List<datatype> listName = new List<datatype>(); Note:-  Simil...