Following up on this call to action from Jonas Rapp: 📢 Calling all @XrmToolBox tool developers! Are you still building and releasing your tools manually? Stop that.Now.https://t.co/47pjRKAOT1 — Jonas Rapp ᴹᴠᴾ 🇸🇪 #ProCodeNoCodeUnite (@rappen) December 2, 2020 I decided to finally automate the build & release process for SQL 4 Continue Reading
SQL 4 CDS 3.1.0 released
I’m pleased to announce that SQL 4 CDS 3.1.0 is now available to download in XrmToolBox! This release includes a lot of performance and usability related changes.
Dataverse Paging with Distinct
I hit a strange situation yesterday. I was retrieving data from Dataverse with a FetchXML query but some values were missing from my results, while others were duplicated. Turns out it’s an easy situation to get into without noticing.
Improving Insert/Update/Delete Performance in D365/Dataverse
One of the most popular features of SQL 4 CDS has proven to be the ability to change data using INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements. To that end, I’ve been looking at how to improve the performance of these types of queries. Whilst I’ve been doing this with a view Continue Reading
SQL 4 CDS 3.0.0 Released
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just released version 3 of SQL 4 CDS. The main updates in this release are: Metadata queries Support for virtual (___name) attributes
CDS Custom APIs
Since Dynamics CRM 2013 we’ve been able to create our own APIs within the XRM framework using the Custom Action process type. Recently a new option appeared in the maker portal called Custom APIs which sounded very similar, so I thought I’d take a look.
FetchXML Late Materialize
The latest addition to FetchXML is Late Materialize. Turning this on or off doesn’t change the results of your query, but it does change how it’s executed behind the scenes, which could lead to some performance improvements.
Querying Metadata with FetchXML
I’ve looked at different ways of accessing CDS metadata recently, but there’s another way I’d overlooked – using FetchXML. CDS exposes a limited amount of metadata as special virtual entities that lets you query it using standard FetchXML syntax:
CDS T-SQL Endpoint Vulnerability
I received a notification today that the preview TDS endpoint had been disabled on my environment because of a security vulnerability.
Retrieving Metadata in D365 / CDS
One of the things that really attracts me to the D365 platform is its metadata capabilities. As an ISV we make a lot of use of this at Data8, making sure our solutions automatically adapt to the customizations that each customer has made in their own system. There are a Continue Reading