Once upon a time, CRM wouldn’t delete records when you pressed the kill switch. It would mark the records for deletion and quietly eradicate them in the darkness of the night. But, hey, the said, we now have better servers, they said, and our SQL Servers are much smarter, they said, and gave us a […]
Tip #634: How to modify recurrent bulk deletion system jobs
On heavy production systems bulk deletion jobs should be scheduled outside of the peak activity window. Unless you’re dealing with 24×7 global monstrosity, scheduling them outside normal working hours would do the trick. There are handful of system jobs that are created for you when CRM organization is provisioned. You can guess what their start […]
Tip #349: Bulk delete in bulk
After using Bulk Delete Wizard in Dynamics CRM one can be mistaken for thinking that bulk delete is only capable deleting one advanced find result screen at the time. But if mentioning of C# invokes more that just musical associations for you, welcome to the realm of SDK, where things are not what they seem […]
Tip #346: Scheduling daily bulk delete jobs
I noticed that my CRM Online storage was getting low, so I created a scheduled bulk delete job to remove system jobs. My environment has many workflows, and since upgrading to CRM 2015 and creating a bunch of rollup fields, I have noticed a slight increase in the number of system job records being created. I […]