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Salesforce raises prices for the first time in 7 years – stock rises (www.crmrank.com)
submitted 1 year ago by misk@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Salesforce, the leading provider of software for customer relations management, announced that it will implement a price increase for some of its cloud and marketing tools starting in August.

The company’s decision to raise prices, the first in seven years, was met with a positive market response as its shares surged nearly 4% during early trading on Tuesday.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never had to use salesforce, what’s janky about their sql? Anything beyond the incompatible functions that I’m used to when moving between PLSQL/TSQL/Db2?

[–] dan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, there’s no select *, for a start.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ew

[–] dan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Indeed. It's okay though, the same behaviour can be trivially achieved with this simple function:

String table = 'table_name';
String query_string = 'SELECT ';
List<String> table_list = new List<String>();
table_list.add(table);

Set<String> table_rows = schema.describeSObjects(table_list)[0].fields.getMap().keyset();
for(String row : table_rows){
    query_string += row + ',';
}
query_string = query_string.removeEnd(','); //remove trailing comma
query_string += ' FROM ' + table;

Database.query(query_string);

Which I'm sure you'll agree is much more enterprise.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man that code is gross. I guess they went with a proprietary sql build in an attempt to lock people in?

[–] dan@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Haha yep. I can't imagine anyone's seriously using that code, and actually there's a lot to be said for specifying the fields in your queries rather then just getting everything (cos things can change), but not having select * is just ridiculously hostile to new users just trying to get a feel for the data.

But that's very Salesforce. They've redesigned SQL so it's "better".

Imagine that attitude applied to an entire platform. It's not bad, per se - it's pretty consistent, stable and mature. But it's certainly spiky and difficult to use compared to other ecosystems.