What are apps,Sobjects and fields in Salesforce

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What are apps in Salesforce?

               According to Salesforce,an app is a group of tabs that work as a unit to provide functionality.Salesforce comes with standard apps such as sales,services,marketing,community etc.The apps build by the user is called a custom app.Apps in Salesforce comes in two variety.Classic apps are build in Salesforce classic and Lightning apps are build in Lightning Experience.Apps build in Salesforce Classic lets user have access to sobjects,tabs and logo.Lightning apps have more advantages, like it can brand the app with a custom colour.We can include utility bars.These apps are build by not writing a single line of code.It only takes few point and click to build an app in Salesforce.

What are Sobjects?

             A Sobject is simply a database table.It stores records related to company.The standard sobjects predefined in Salesforce are Account,Contact,Opportunity etc.The objects created by users are called custom objects.Custom objects created will have an extension  __c.This way we can also differentiate them from standard objects.Whenever a custom object is created,then Name,Owner,Created by,Last modified by fields are created automatically and cannot be deleted.

What are fields in Salesforce?

            Fields are nothing but the columns in the table(Sobject).There are predefined fields in every sobject,these are called standard fields.These fields cannot be deleted but it can be hidden through page layout.Users are able to create their own custom fields.Salesforce lets us create fields like auto number,formula,checkbox,text,email etc.Custom fields can be deleted.
 
Note:Records in Salesforce are the rows in the table.
         

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