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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › Why generic data type is not used to store data on some specific object in Salesforce?

    Tagged: Account Data Type, Account Object, Generic Data Type, sObject, Specific Object

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      Why generic data type is not used to store data on some specific object in Salesforce?

      Posted by MOHIT on January 20, 2020 at 10:47 AM

      Sobject is a generic data type. But if we insert some value in the account object through apex, by using Sobject as data type in place of account data type, we get an error message. why we cannot use sObject in place of any object name?

      eg.

      sObject add= new Account (name='ram');  //it shows error

      Account add=new Account (name='ram'); // this line  executed.

      • This discussion was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by  Forcetalks.
      MOHIT replied 6 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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