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meet.sivameet.siva 

How to prevent duplicates from inserting?

Hi,

 

I have to insert unique records(i.e remove the duplicates) from some  custom field (say employee_id) in one custom object into another custom field in another custom object.

Can anyone share some working code? It will be helpful.

 

Regards,

S.Sivakumar.

Shailesh DeshpandeShailesh Deshpande
Here's a link with a very nice example to avoid duplicates:

http://www.salesforce.com/docs/developer/cookbook/Content/apex_dedupe.htm
meet.sivameet.siva

Hey thanks.

I had gone through it already. But i am not able to get unique records from one custom object and insert into another custom object. So can u help me with some code.

 

Regards,

S.Sivakumar
robdobbyrobdobby

There are several ways to get a distinct collection.  You could use an AggregateResult SOQL query;  if its a relatively modest amount of results, you could query for the full list then manually sort them yourself in Apex, maybe put them in a Set:

 

Set <ID> uniqueIDs = new Set <ID> ();

for (Obj_A__c nextObj : [Select employee_id From Obj_A__c]) {

    uniqueIDs.add(Obj_A__c.employee_id);

}

 

for (ID nextID : uniqueIDs) {

    // do something with Obj_B__c

}

 

Aggregate queries have been covered in many threads, governor limits can be an issue if you are talking about 50k+ results:

 

http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/Apex-Code-Development/SELECT-DISTINCT-equivalent-in-SOQL/td-p/261019