The biggest announcement of MBAS for me by a long way was the new T-SQL endpoint. For those who missed it, go and check out the recordings.
D365UG UK: Data Integrity & Quality – Tips & Tools
A bit of a mouthful of a title! I had a great time earlier today presenting at my first ever virtual event, D365UG UK. Many thanks to the organising team for a smoothly run event!
SQL 4 CDS 2.0.0 released!
I’m very pleased to release version 2.0.0 of my SQL 4 CDS tool today! If you haven’t come across it before, SQL 4 CDS is an XrmToolBox tool to query and manipulate your CDS data using regular SQL queries, making it accessible to a much wider range of users. You Continue Reading
Inside FetchXML pt 10 – link-entity (again)
A follow-up on my previous post on link-entity, prompted by this tweet from Daryl LaBar: Was unaware of the new join operators. @jordimontana @XrmWizard have either of you used these, or know what they are supposed to do? The documentation is rather lacking…https://t.co/Nr4AyZMzb2 — Daryl LaBar (@ddlabar) April 2, 2020
Inside FetchXML pt 9 – distinct
You can ensure your query only produces each row once using the distinct attribute. For example, if you have multiple entries for the same company name you can get the list of unique names using:
Inside FetchXML pt 8 – page, count & top
By default you’ll get up to 5,000 records that match your query. The top-level <fetch> element supports a few options to help you control this:
Inside FetchXML pt 7 – rowaggregate
If you’re using any hierarchies in your data, you’ve probably noticed the icon in your main grid views that you can click on to show the hierarchy view when records have a parent or children. It’s simple to work out if a record has a parent – just check if Continue Reading
SQL 4 CDS 1.0.9 Released!
I’ve just released SQL 4 CDS 1.0.9. Please update it when XrmToolBox prompts you to take advantage of these latest features:
FetchXML Multiple Links
One common pattern of queries I see about FetchXML is how to write queries to ask two different questions about the same related entity. For example: Invoices that include product A AND product B? Contacts that have pending emails AND no sent emails? Visits that have a page view of Continue Reading
SQL 4 CDS 1.0.6 Released!
I’m very pleased to announce the release of SQL 4 CDS version 1.0.6! Please update your existing versions in XrmToolBox to get some great new features…