Dynamics 365 Business Central: new indexing features on 2021 Wave 2 release

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19) introduces some new indexing features that you can use on … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and SQL on Azure VM: reducing storage costs

If you search on my blog, I’we written in the past a lot of articles with suggestions and best practices … More

Securing your Azure SQL Database with a private endpoint

Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new features for performant code

In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an … More

Auto-scaling your Azure SQL database with Logic Apps

I think that you know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure SQL database for your workloads in the … More

Read-scale out with Azure SQL and Dynamics 365 Business Central

In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with … More

Azure SQL Serverless tier: a way to save cost for your workloads in the cloud

When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and data compression

Yesterday Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (from the Dynamics 365 Business Central Team) asked us an interesting question: do you use data … More

LinkedObjects on Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful now!

One of the common (and basic) way to create integrations between systems in Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the past was … More

Exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central data to the outside world: my two cents

I had a discussion in the last days on socials with some of my followers (yes, I have them :D) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise Wave 2: how to create databases and perform technical upgrades

I’ve explained few days ago how to change a license from customer’s one to partner’s one when working with Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: on-premise and direct SQL integrations

Do you remember this post? I wrote it long time ago to explain what happens on SQL Server when you … More

Azure SQL Elastic Pools: a way for saving costs with your Microsoft Dynamics ERP databases in the cloud

I’ve written a lot in the past about how you can move your existing on-premise Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise performances to the max with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

When you’re start implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise (because you’re not ready for the SaaS now), one of the … More

Moving an on-premise Dynamics 365 Business Central database to Azure SQL via Powershell

If I have an on-premise installation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, can I move my database from a local SQL … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and extensions: what happens to my third-party integrations?

In a real-world Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations, is quite common to see integrations with third-party external applications. These integrations are … More

Using SQL Data Sync with Microsoft Dynamics NAV on-premise and Azure SQL Database

In many Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations we have situations where the NAV database is often “coupled” with a second database … More

Backup your NAV on-premise database to Azure Blob Storage

In these days we had an internal discussion with our marketing department in order to increase the Azure adoption of … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure: SQL Server on Azure VM best practices

When talking about Microsoft Dynamics NAV installed on Azure, we have mainly two choices: use an Azure VM with SQL … More

Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More

Azure SQL and Information Protection (GDPR)

I’m talking a lot on this blog about Azure SQL and its usage as a PaaS database engine for many … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure SQL: performance tuning

In the previous days, we’ve discussed a serie of benefits of using Azure SQL Database with NAV if you’re planning … More

Azure SQL needs more consideration with NAV

When deploying a solution architecture with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP of your choice, you already know that the … More

Google BigQuery: and Microsoft?

Google BigQuery is really a fascinating technology for big data analysis. In short terms BigQuery enables super-fast, SQL-like queries against … More