The inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics GP on Microsoft SQL Server

Unless you have been working with Dynamics GP from the days of Ctree and Btrieve, it is quite difficult to comprehend why Dynamics GP seems to behave (as in act up) in certain ways on SQL Server -- how would I say this... not quite like your other Windows applications that run on SQL Server.

To understand some of these behavioral issues, David Musgrave brings a two-part series on Understanding how Microsoft Dynamics GP works with Microsoft SQL Server -- if it was my article I would have labeled it Dynamics GP technological idiosyncrasies, but then again, I did not write it. :-)

Ever wonder why the cryptic table names and columns? A lot of it has to do with the origins of the application and the multiple operating systems and ISAM platforms supported back in the 80's and 90's. Know your Microsoft Dynamics GP history... in the early days, long before Microsoft SQL Server, Dynamics GP ran on the Mac OS platform and supported Ctree and Btrieve as file server platforms. I guess at the end of the day, the development team figured it would be a daunting effort to make those tables and columns names meaningful for SQL Server.

Until next post!

MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MVP
Maximum Global Business, LLC
http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com

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