Data and metadata
Since its release, one of the biggest selling points of the Salesforce1 Platform is the ease at which anyone can make configuration changes through the platform's GUI. Naturally, when Apex was first developed, a key requirement was the ability to easily interact with these objects and their data in the database. The folks at salesforce.com took an innovative approach to this and tightly coupled Apex with the metadata of the Salesforce1 Platform.
The data stored on the Salesforce1 Platform has the sObject data type. This data type can be used to refer to the generic concept of any record regardless of the object type. Each of the built-in tables and custom tables you create on the Salesforce1 Platform automatically have their own ...
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