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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an enterprise resource planning system, essentially an accounting system on steroids, designed for mid-sized organizations. The implementation of Dynamics GP is usually considered to be complex, and people often realize there must be more efficient ways of working with the system. This book will show readers how to improve their use of Dynamics GP and get the most out of this tool quickly and effectively. "Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook" picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced you will find useful recipes for improving the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The clear recipe steps and screenshots make implementing these solutions easy for users of any level and will be sure to improve your efficiency with the Dynamics GP 2013 system. The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application. Most of the recipes are designed to give tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, harnessing the power of SmartLists to leverage both simplicity and power, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2013, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, and much more! Through the final chapters, the book covers system maintenance and extending Dynamics GP with the Support Debugging Tool and Professional Services Tools Library.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Executing SQL from within Dynamics GP


Earlier in this chapter, we looked at executing SQL code from a user's machine with the free Support Administrator Console from Microsoft. Another option to execute SQL code from a user's machine is with the Support Debugging Tool.

Microsoft makes the Support Debugging Tool available to users via Dynamics GP partners. The tool is free, you just have to ask.

An advantage of the Support Debugging Tool over the Support Administrator Console is that the Support Debugging Tool is integrated into Dynamics GP and Dynamics GP security. This means that the Support Debugging Tool can be safely installed on a user's machine and access to it restricted via GP security roles. Also, as several other recipes of this chapter have shown, the Support Debugging Tool does much more than run SQL code.

It does run SQL code quite well though, and in this recipe we will look at how to accomplish that.

How to do it...

To execute SQL code via the Support Debugging Tool, perform the...