How do I delete a lot of records in Salesforce?

How do I delete a lot of records in Salesforce?

Step by step instructions on how to mass delete records in Salesforce

1. Step 1 – Click “Your Name” -> Setup -> Data Management -> Mass Delete Records.
2. Step 2 – Choose the record type you wish to delete.
3. Step 3 – Specify conditions for selected items, such as “State equals New York” or “City equals Toronto”.

How do I delete multiple records from Apex Salesforce?

To overcome this limitation in the standard salesforce view screen, we have many ways to delete multiple records.

1. Mass Delete Records. Setup –> Data Management –> Mass Delete Records.
2. Developer Console. We can used the developer console to delete multiple records.
3. TRUNCATE BUTTON FOR CUSTOM OBJECTS.

How to hard delete a record in Salesforce?

Hard Delete record using Apex in Salesforce Biswajeet July 12, 2015 2 Comments We can hard delete record or list of records using emptyRecycleBin () function in apex. Pass the record or record list to emptyRecycleBin () to delete it from Recycle Bin.

How to hard delete a record in apex?

We can hard delete record or list of records using emptyRecycleBin () function in apex. Pass the record or record list to emptyRecycleBin () to delete it from Recycle Bin. Note: The DML operation datatbase.emptyRecycleBin () is limited to 1000 items.

Is there a way to DELETE DML in apex?

You can do this by going into Salesforce Workbench, logging in, going to “Utilities” and “Apex Execute”. From there you can write a short query, assign it to a collection and use DELETE DML.

How to delete all the records of a custom object?

With the data storage limitations in Developer org, chances are less than the object will have more than 20K records. Which means, running the code snippet provided by @Cory Cowgill twice will do the job. 1. Use data loader/workbench to export the ids of the records and use the delete operation of DL/workbench to delete them.