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Play by Play: Denormalize Your Thinking About Salesforce Data Modeling
In this course, you’ll learn why denormalization is “the norm” in Salesforce, and why it’s important for developers and business analysts new to the platform to “unlearn” some common normalization patterns.
Intermediate
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Play by Play: Denormalize Your Thinking About Salesforce Data Modeling
In this course, you’ll learn why denormalization is “the norm” in Salesforce, and why it’s important for developers and business analysts new to the platform to “unlearn” some common normalization patterns.
Intermediate
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Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Denormalize Your Thinking About Salesforce Data Modeling, Mike Topalovich and Don Robins demonstrate why it’s important for Salesforce customers to understand why data modeling and design in Salesforce is different from traditional database technologies. Learn the fundamentals of Salesforce Data Design and Refactoring, and review important data design principles that support the Salesforce no-code model and optimization mechanisms. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained a broad perspective on how and why database patterns and practices are different in Salesforce, and some of the trade-offs necessary between performance, user experience, scalability, and security.
Play by Play: Denormalize Your Thinking About Salesforce Data Modeling
Intermediate
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Mike has been a Salesforce certified developer since 2009 and a Salesforce certified instructor since 2014. He is a regular presenter at Dreamforce, TrailheaDX, and Salesforce community events. Mike was a co-author of the book, Visualforce in Practice, and publishes curated and original Salesforce content on his blog at Topalovich.com.
Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing