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You want me to process how many records?

We'll talk about triggers more in a later chapter, but for now you just need to know that a trigger is code that is automatically executed whenever a record is operated upon (meaning inserted, updated, deleted, or undeleted). When you first start programming in Apex, it tends to be trigger-related. These are usually simple scenarios such as when an account phone is modified, update the phone for all of the contacts on that account. This is shown in the following code:

//This code has a potentially fatal flaw in it
public static void updateContactAddresses(){
List<Contact> contactList = [
Select Id, Phone, AccountId, Account.Phone 
from Contact 
];
for ( Contact c : contactQuery ){
  c.Phone = c.Account.Phone;
}
update contactQuery;
}

Did you spot the flaw in the previous code block? If you tried it out in your Developer Edition org, it probably worked exactly as described. The problem doesn't lie in the syntax or logic.

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Learning Apex Programming

By : Matthew Kaufman, Wicherski

Learning Apex Programming

By: Matthew Kaufman, Wicherski

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You want me to process how many records?

Learning Apex Programming

By : Matthew Kaufman, Wicherski

Learning Apex Programming

By: Matthew Kaufman, Wicherski

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