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.
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?
I mean, there’s no
select *
, for a start.Ew
Indeed. It’s okay though, the same behaviour can be trivially achieved with this simple function:
Which I’m sure you’ll agree is much more enterprise.
Oh man that code is gross. I guess they went with a proprietary sql build in an attempt to lock people in?
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.