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new_bienew_bie 

Indexed fields Purpose?

Hi 

 

what are the Indexed fields in salesforce.

 

Which sittuation we are using INDEXED fields.

 

Can you explain with a small example.

 

Regards.

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Rahul SharmaRahul Sharma

Here is the link of salesforce documentation for Indexing :Working with Very Large SOQL Queries

In short, with use of indexed field in query filter, you could optimize the query retrieving time and fetch the results faster.

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Rahul SharmaRahul Sharma

Here is the link of salesforce documentation for Indexing :Working with Very Large SOQL Queries

In short, with use of indexed field in query filter, you could optimize the query retrieving time and fetch the results faster.

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new_bienew_bie
Hi Rahul,

Thanks for valuable information.

Regards..
marcobmarcob

Hi,

 

the url you included in your post explains about indexing says:

 

  • The following fields are indexed by default: primary keys (Id, Name and Owner fields), foreign keys (lookup or master-detail relationship fields), audit dates (such as LastModifiedDate), and custom fields marked as External ID or Unique.

However, in my experience the lookup fields are NOT indexed by default. I also got info from Dreamforce '13 which confirms that. 

 

Any idea?

 

Regards,

Marco