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A most EPIC tale of troubleshooting a Dynamics GP SQL performance issue
By Steve Endow Today was a very good day. After hours of effort by a team of three consultants, we solved a vexing Dynamics GP SQL performance issue for a client. I'll start with the conclusion and...
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SQL Server Composite Primary Key Trivia
By Steve Endow Coincidentally, after working on a really interesting Dynamics GP SQL Server performance issue earlier this week, I will be having a call tomorrow with another GP partner and GP customer...
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Year Over Year Comparison in SQL
Either we are slacking, or we are both so busy lately! We had a great time at Technical Airlift, and I am gearing up for the Partner Event (GPCC) and GPUG Summit next week in lovely Tampa, FL. In the...
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When good backups just aren't enough
By Steve Endow Today I was hoping to start a new development project. I blocked out my day to focus on the project and was ready to dig into some code. This morning I fired up one of my HyperV virtual...
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Unable To Open Select Human Resources Windows?
I ran across an odd case when I was on site with a client a couple of weeks ago. The users could navigate easily to all of the Human Resources window. But when they navigated to Employee Maintenance...
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Inventory transaction "Reason Code" field in GP 2013
By Steve Endow I admit, I am not enough of a Dynamics GP geek to thoroughly review all of the new features and enhancements that come out with each new version (okay, that can actually mean that I'm...
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Tracking Actual Hours Worked in Payroll
There is no good excuse for my absence from blog land in the past few months. It seems like I came out of Technical Airlift and GPUG in to a whirlwind of holidays, projects, and January 1st go lives....
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Recreating Year End Wage File After 2014 Payrolls
Ah, Payroll Year End. It deserves to be capitalized. So much fun, in such a short time frame :) Just a quick reminder post that you can recreate the Year End Wage File if absolutely necessary after...
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Adding 1099 Box Number to Reports
A shout out to the fabulous Patrick Roth at Microsoft for pointing me in the right direction for this one. We had been trying to add the 1099 Box Number from the Vendor Maintenance Options window to...
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"Background process is running: Exit Aborted" message when trying to close GP
By Steve Endow I am developing a Dynamics GP VS Tools AddIn for a customer, and while testing the AddIn, I started to get this message when I tried to close GP: "Background process is running: Exit...
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Delete Deductions? Um, Not So Fast.
Did you know you can delete a deduction assigned to an employee even if there is activity for that deduction? As long as the activity is in a prior year, and the year end close for Payroll has been...
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SOP Orders imported with eConnect auto allocate and auto fulfill
By Steve Endow I received a call from a customer who has an eConnect application to import SOP orders. The import was developed by another partner many years ago, and I inhereted it for ongoing...
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Finding your Dynamics GP Site Name to Request ISV Registration Keys
By Steve Endow This may seem pretty basic to many, but it is such a common issue for me that I want to discuss it in the hopes of clarifying it for GP customers. I sell several ISV "add-on" solutions...
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Search for text in all SQL Server stored procedures
By Steve Endow A customer emailed me this morning saying they were getting this error when posting some batches in their test environment: The stored procedure glpPostBatch returned the following...
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Microsoft Project Auto Schedule option
By Steve Endow I recently started a new project that looked like it would require a bit of planning between at least two different client teams, the GP partner, and two contractors. I initially created...
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eConnect 2010 / 2013 error: Procedure or function 'ta___________' expects...
By Steve Endow It can be really strange how some Dynamics GP issues come in clusters. One week, all will be quiet, but the next week, you'll get multiple calls, often regarding the same issue. Last...
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Windows Application Event Log fills with Information events: Event ID 1903...
By Steve Endow I recently had a customer contact me regarding an issue he saw in his Windows Application event log. The log was being flooded with events from source "HHCTRL". Several events per second...
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Great quote: "I am never a fan of always"
By Steve Endow I was on a call with a client this week and we were discussing a moderately complex business process related to Dynamics GP transaction integrations and custom reports. At some point...
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The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
By Steve Endow Several years ago I read an article in Scientific American called "The Tyranny of Choice" by Barry Schwartz. It was fascinating and finally gave a name to a frustration that I had been...
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Flat Tax Rates and Additional Amounts in Dynamics GP
Every time I train someone on payroll in Dynamics GP, I point out the flax tax rate fields available on both the Pay Code Setup (Setup-Payroll-Pay Code) and Employee Pay Code Maintenance windows....
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