Salesforce raises prices for the first time in 7 years - stock rises
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Salesforce raises prices for the first time in 7 years - stock rises

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.

  • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    I fucking hate Salesforce. I have to integrate with it via API. Why they chose to create a shittier version of SQL is so annoying.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • danEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

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

          • danEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            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.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

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

              • danEnglish
                11·
                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.

    • Funwayguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As a software engineer who has dealt with so many incidents resulting from the garbage coming out of salesforce. SO. MUCH. THIS.

      I swear it’s always in a perpetual state of duct tape no matter where I see it used.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Which one is the question. They have multiple different ones with no feature parity. Looking for documentation? Go fuck yourself and download this 60 page pdf. Also it hasn’t been updated in a while and we won’t tell you about breaking changes. Sorry for the late reply, Lemmy didn’t tell me about your reply till just a few minutes ago lol