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Not mentioned in the article, but Salesforce was a pioneer for Developer engagement: * Free developer sandbox instance of Salesforce * IDE plug-ins (Ec
by matchagaucho 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but Salesforce was a pioneer for Developer engagement:
* Free developer sandbox instance of Salesforce
* IDE plug-ins (Eclipse, ...)
* API first. SOAP and REST APIs for everything
* Object oriented database manipulation language
* Visual DB schema designer
* "App store" distribution model
These features are considered table stakes for any new SaaS/PaaS vendor.
- prdonahue 8y agoIt's been a decade since I've tried writing any queries against their "database" but at the time you couldn't do any sort of JOIN. Has that changed?
- NittLion78 8y agoIn SOQL you can do it with a nested SELECT, but it's not as intuitive as your standard outer join in SQL: https://developer.salesforce.com/page/A_Deeper_look_at_SOQL_and_Relationship_Queries_on_Force.com https://developer.salesforce.com/page/A_Deeper_look_at_SOQL_...
- matchagaucho 8y agoNo literal JOIN support, but comparable workarounds. The price for a serverless, multi-tenant DB is governor limits.