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A bulk update on 5,000 records. Twelve fail validation. Should the other 4,988 commit, or should the whole batch roll back? The answer depends on the business case, and Apex offers three patterns to control it.

Jul 12 · 7 min read · sapotacorpvn.hashnode.dev  
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