MENU
A Salesforce org has more than 50,000 contacts. A new business process requires a calculation that aggregates data from all of these contact records. This calculation needs to run once a day after business hours. Which two steps should a developer take to accomplish this?
This scenario presents two distinct requirements: processing a large volume of data (50,000 records) and running the process at a specific time (once a day after business hours).
Database.Batchable (Option B): Processing 50,000 records in a single synchronous transaction will exceed Apex Governor Limits (specifically the CPU time limit or the heap size limit). Batch Apex allows the system to process these records in smaller chunks (batches), ensuring that the calculation completes without hitting limits.
Schedulable (Option C): To ensure the job runs 'once a day after business hours,' the Schedulable interface is required. The developer allows the class to be scheduled via the Apex Scheduler or the UI.
The standard pattern for this use case is to create a class that implements Schedulable, and inside its execute method, instantiate and execute the Batch class (Database.executeBatch). This combines precise timing with bulk processing capabilities.
Currently there are no comments in this discussion, be the first to comment!