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The CRM 2011 background job schedule can be changed with this tool from CodePlex.

http://crmjobeditor.codeplex.com/

The MSDN blog gives a good overview

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2012/04/26/avoid-performance-issues-by-re-scheduling-crm-2011-maintenance-jobs.aspx

Generate a table of jobs and their last run times on SQL Server 2013.

use msdb
;WITH jobhistory as (
SELECT job_id,
run_status,
last_run_time = max(dbo.agent_datetime(run_date, run_time))
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory
WHERE step_id = 0
AND run_status = 1
GROUP BY job_id, run_status)

SELECT … Continue Reading

Tabulate the table sizes and row counts in a SQL 2013 DB

SELECT
s.name + ‘.’ + t.Name AS [Table Name],
t.object_id as [Object Id],
part.rows AS [Total Rows In Table – Modified],
CAST((SUM( DISTINCT au.Total_pages) * 8 ) / 1024.000 / 1024.000 AS NUMERIC(18, 3))
AS [Table’s Total Space In GB]
FROM
SYS.Tables t INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON t.schema_id = s.schema_id
INNER JOIN SYS.Indexes idx ON t.Object_id = idx.Object_id
INNER JOIN SYS.Partitions part ON idx.Object_id = part.Object_id
AND idx.Index_id = part.Index_id
INNER JOIN SYS.Allocation_units au ON part.Partition_id = au.Container_id
INNER JOIN SYS.Filegroups fGrp ON idx.Data_space_id = fGrp.Data_space_id
INNER JOIN SYS.Database_files Df ON Df.Data_space_id = fGrp.Data_space_id
WHERE t.Is_ms_shipped = 0 AND idx.Object_id > 255
GROUP … Continue Reading

Multi-select options in Dynamics CRM 2011 (and 4.0) have been solved in a number of ways, many being based on Jim Wang’s excellent solution. With the introduction of cross-browser support and the XRM client API, there are a number of tweaks to make to Jim’s solution making it cross browser compatible and supporting CRM 2011 Rollup 14.

Initially, dependency on a cross-browser script library should be used. In this instance im using jQuery (HREF).  The remaining changes include the use of the XRM.Page functions rather than getElementById througout the script.

The script is called with the function DisplayMultiSelectPickList(“new_CustomOptionsField”, “new_CustomOptionsValue”);
where new_CustomOptionsField … Continue Reading