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MS CRM - Adding new Column, a new Logical Partition and Support of other databases...

Hi

I am new to the MS CRM domain. I am having the following issues with the application. To give you a feel of the problems we are facing, below listed are a few questions:

1. How to remove security from a table so that we can add/remove fields from the table? To give you a real example, MSCRM does not allow us to add any field in a USER table, but we want to add 1 field to this table.

2. How to link two databases? One option we are exploring is to make a new third party tool with its own database, which need to be linked to MSCRM database.

3. MSCRM uses SQL server with 4 logical partitions. We want to add one more partition.

It would be great if experts here can guide me in this.

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Mittal

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(1) This would not be supported by Microsoft, but you could do it by adding the column through SQL Enterprise Manager

(2) Need more information on this one. One way of linking databases is simply to run the databases on the same sql server. Then you can write SQL VIEWS that read data from both repositories. e.g. v_mittal_mirror_accountbase <--- this could do a (SELECT * FROM adventureworks..accountbase) to retrieve all CRM accounts from within your new database.

(3) Open up SQL Enterprise Manager and create a new database. (You don't need to use any MS CRM tools to achieve this)

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Thanks a lot for the answer. I am still exploring the given options nad a few more and will come back in a few days with the solution (if I could find one).

Regards
Mittal