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Not too long ago, we had an upgrade issue at a customer: the upgrade timed out, and after investigation, it was simply because our upgrade code: it took too long to modify 130000 records (well – and quite some validations, I admit, but still – it’s not that much, is it?). This made me hold …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/12/21/a-business-central-upgrade-code-saga/
One of the things that totally slipped by me, is the new app from Microsoft that apparently was released in the last wave called “Data Search“. It’s a simple, but powerful concept: Search for “any” record in your data. Well, any record that you have set up to search for at least ;-). It is …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/11/18/the-business-central-data-search-app-under-the-hood/
Yesterday, I got a question that I found was too difficult to answer: “What tables were added in 20.5?” The reason for this question was simple: we need to update the manually created permissionsets in order for new tables to be supported after an upgrade. So – what tables were added? There are a number …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/10/14/what-objects-were-added/
Here’s a small blogpost about an undocumented, but not uninteresting “feature” (at least not in my book ;-)). Performance Profiling You’re probably very much aware of the Performance Profiler in Business Central: an ability to monitor code execution in terms of “durations” and “hit count”, and having a view on how the code/process performed.As a …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/09/30/setting-the-sampling-interval-for-in-client-performance-profiling-business-central/
This does not need any introduction or will not come as a surprise – BCTechDays is just around the corner. At the time writing this blogpost, it’s only a mere 20 days away – and quite honestly, I’m starting to crap my pants 🤪. Why? Excitement, fear, nerves – you pick ;-). Why? Well, because …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/08/26/my-bctechdays-2022/
You cannot have missed it: the “2022 Release Wave 2” plans are out! There have been blogs, there have been tweets, and yes, Erik Hougaard already did a video about it as well of course – and as I always do – I’ll go over the plan myself, focused mostly on the Business Central part …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/07/15/microsoft-dynamics-365-2022-release-wave-2-plan-for-business-central/
There has been a lot going on about this the past couple of days – especially on Yammer and social media. This post is merely to help spreading the information. TL;DR As a picture says more than a 1000 words – let me steal a picture from Natalie Karolak (follow her, if you don’t already …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/06/29/boolean-buttons-messed-up-in-chrome-and-edge-what-now/
In a way – I’m not going to tell anything new here. Microsoft has been adding apps to your environment for many years already. It’s just that a recent discussion on Twitter basically led to a general – let’s say – “feeling”, that made me decide to share my view on the matter as well …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/06/03/should-microsoft-keep-installing-apps-behind-your-back/
After too long (last edition was in 2019), we finally can look forward to a new edition of THE best technical conference for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: BCTechDays (formally known as NAVTechDays). If you run through my blog (or simply search for “NAVTechDays“), you probably notice that I’ve always been ecstatic about this conference. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/05/30/bctechdays-2022/
Don’t worry – you didn’t miss any information regarding Microsoft coming out with a new type of apps 🤪. This is merely a post where I’ll explain a solution that I had to go through, and some thoughts that might be interesting for you as well ;-). Previous post, I explained about a “booboo” that …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/05/13/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-offering-apps/