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.

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.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Introduction and Setting the Stage 15mins
• What Is This “Denormalization” You Speak Of? 14mins
• Fundamentals of Salesforce Data Model Design 20mins
• Working with Salesforce Data 14mins
• Queries and Relationships 29mins
• Optimizing Data Models for Performance 14mins
• Optimizing Data Models for Scalability 15mins
• Conclusion 4mins