SOQL: accounts with no contacts
The anti-join: records missing children, without a report type gymnastics session.
SOQL: records modified since yesterday
Relative date literals beat hand-built timestamps every time — and they respect the user's time zone.
Org Health Check Notes
My raw working notes from twenty org audits — what to look at, in what order, and the numbers that usually mean trouble.
Admin's Release Readiness Template
The Notion + Sheets template I use to digest every Salesforce release in about an hour — retirements first, updates second, hype never.
Trailhead
Salesforce's own hands-on learning — badges are not skills, but the practice orgs and guided projects are genuinely good.
Workbench
The Swiss-army knife for SOQL, metadata and REST exploring — free, ancient, and still unmatched for quick answers.
Five SOQL queries every admin should know
The Developer Console query editor is the fastest answer machine in your org — five queries that replace an hour of report building.
| Time | Chapter |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | The requirements, in plain words |
| 03:15 | Standard |
Data model walkthrough: a quoting app from scratch
Watch a real data model take shape: objects, relationship choices argued out loud, and the junction object that saves the design.
Salesforce release notes, decoded: Winter '26
Six hundred pages of release notes, reduced to the eleven changes that will actually touch your org — and the two that might break it.