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11.34Parent-child bulk load
Suppose you need:
100,000 Accounts
500,000 Contacts
Contacts need Account relationships.
One strategy:
1. Bulk upsert Accounts
2. obtain / correlate Account IDs
3. transform Contacts
4. Bulk upsert Contacts
But this can be simplified if Salesforce external-ID relationships fit your schema.
Either way, load ordering and relationship resolution matter.