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Month: May 2021

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Category: MSDyn365

Bypassing plugins in Dataverse: faster, simpler data imports

Posted On 27th May 202127th May 2021 By Mark Carrington9 Comments

Data migration can be one of the most time consuming parts of deploying a new CRM system, and all that complex business logic in your shiny new plugins just complicates matters. At best they just slow down the import, or worse they change your historical data according to your latest Continue Reading

Category: MSDyn365

Improving bulk Dataverse performance with EnableAffinityCookie

Posted On 26th May 202126th May 2021 By Mark Carrington1 Comment

A few months ago I investigated how using multi threading and batching requests can be used to improve the performance of Dataverse integrations. In the latest release of the Dataverse tooling we’ve now got another option to use – EnableAffinityCookie. Let’s have a look at how that can help too.

Category: SQL 4 CDS

Date/Time handling in SQL 4 CDS

Posted On 21st May 202121st May 2021 By Mark Carrington13 Comments

The ways different datetime columns in Dataverse/D365 behave across timezones is already the subject of plenty of blog articles. In this one I’d like to clarify how they work in SQL 4 CDS. Please pay particular attention to this if you’re updating any datetime values!

Category: SQL 4 CDS

SQL 4 CDS 5.1 Released

Posted On 6th May 20216th May 2021 By Mark Carrington32 Comments

This is mainly a bug fix release based on reports from users (thank you!) and telemetry. If you’ve hit problems running queries with SQL 4 CDS v5, please update to v5.1 and try again. If your query still doesn’t work, please let me know! You can put details of any Continue Reading

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