Microsoft Fabric: Optimize Performance by Partitioning Delta Tables

In OneLake, we are able to partition data so that performance enhancements could be made through data skipping. Consider a situation where large amounts of sales data are being stored. You could partition sales data by year. The partitions are stored in subfolders named “year=2021”, “year=2022”, etc. If you only want to report on sales […]

Microsoft Fabric: Optimizing Database Table Architecture

Very simply, we are able to optimize lakehouse data table architecture. In the case where Spark is used, Parquet files are immutable and as such, we end up storing a lot of small files. The Optimize function allows us to reduce the number of files written as it just collates them into larger files. Within […]

Adjusting Item Sales Unit Price in Business Central

In the case where a company wants to adjust an item’s unit price based on a flat profit rate of 20%, you have two options: 1. Run the Adjust Item Costs/Prices batch job: Fill in what to adjust, the adjust field, adjustment factor (multiply the adjustment field amount by this value) and rounding method. 2. […]

Direct Cost Applied Accounts in Business Central

When purchasing inventory in Business Central, we see that it creates 4 entries: The reason for this is that having separate purchase accounts in BC provides an easy way to view inventory purchases. It allows for reporting to capture cost of goods sold more clearly as COGS = Beginning Inventory + Purchases – Ending Inventory […]

Posting Transactions Directly to The G/L in Business Central

General Journals are used to post transactions directly to G/L – bank, customer, vendor, and employee accounts. Access General Journals. Fill out the necessary fields in the journal line and Post. This will directly post this journal line to the G/L, whereas, payment and sales journals start from a purchase invoice or sales order and […]

JSM Workflow: As an Admin, I want to be able to interact with tickets using Teams

Jira and Microsoft Teams has an integration that enables specific users to comment and edit tickets, as well as query for tickets. Looking at the Teams integration with Jira, we can see that there are 3 main channels: General, IT Support and Tickets. The IT Support channel’s purpose is to have a space where admins […]