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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central database


Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 stores its data in a Microsoft SQL Server database or a Microsoft Azure SQL database. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and earlier versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV used either a Microsoft SQL database or a native database for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The native database has been discontinued and is no longer available.

Now let's talk about the databases for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS is only deployed using Microsoft Azure SQL databases for both tenant and application databases. The on-premise fall 2018 update release for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central will have the same database version support it currently has Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018. Therefore, it will support Microsoft SQL Server—whether on-premises, virtualized, or hosted in Azure IaaS—and Microsoft Azure SQL Database.

The database topology used by Microsoft Dynamics...