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Purging Pointless Permission Records Provides Performance Payoff

This article is obviously a follow up to Permission Problems post I published previously. The other day I was using the User Permissions Report (RPUSER), I noticed something amiss. I had recently deleted a couple of educational and testing companies which many people used. However, like many other areas of M2M, the records are [...]

Honey, I Shrunk my Project File

I’ve mentioned in the past how difficult M2M’s flavor of VBA is to use. One problem that I haven’t touched on is the problem of VBA file corruption.

M2M VBA File Corruption? What exactly are you talking about?

When I talk about the VBA file, I am referring to the M2VEvents.prj file. This is the [...]

All the Little Ants are Marching...

“I got an ant farm; them fellas didn’t grow shit.” – Mitch Hedberg

A few months ago I became aware that a company I deal with still uses dot matrix printers. For those of you who have never seen one, that’s because most companies phased these relics out of existence fifteen years ago.

The dot matrix printer [...]

Removing Null Country Values From the Syaddr Table

Unfortunately M2M does not automatically populate the Country field on many screens when a US State is selected. This can cause problems in reporting when an executive wants sales broken down by country and many of them are grouped under Null.

Anyway, if you want to see how many addresses are missing “United States” you [...]

Standard Disclaimer

As I was preparing to post another script, this time with an update statement, I started to insert my standard disclaimer. However, as more and more of my posts will include SQL code, I thought I would just dedicate one post for the disclaimer and then link to it. So, without further adieu…

Important: All information [...]

M2M Database Polls

One of my crappy college jobs was in market research. Yes, I was one of those annoying guys in the mall holding a clipboard. I would approach you, politely ask you about your soda preferences (for the enlightened folks we call it Pop), and then take you back into the “store” to do a taste [...]

Let’s Play the Orphaned Records Game

In the past couple of weeks, I have discussed the problems of orphaned records in the M2M Database and promised to provide a script to find them. So, I’ve decided to turn it into a game.

If you’d like to play, paste the following script into your Query Analyzer or SQL Server Management Studio and [...]

That's Quite a View - INMast

A Made2Manage customer called me with a serious performance problem with one of his custom reports. After I looked at it, I realized that the inventory changes in M2M Version 6.0 were the culprit. To give you some idea of his problem, the query in question ran took a few seconds before the migration and [...]

More Data Corruption Problems with M2M. Orphan Quote Records

Brief Summary – M2M orphans records in the Quote Master and Quote Items tables when the quotes are in the Cancelled status.

As I mentioned last week, I came across a problem with orphaned records in my addressing tables. Rather than address my orphaned record problems piecemeal, I decided to create a script to check [...]

Another Visual Basic (VBA) Rant

Recently I got a call from another M2M Consultant who was attempting to install M2M on Windows 7. He simply could not get VBA to work. I asked him to run through the steps and I found his problem right away. He had made a mistake early in the process; I have made similar mistakes [...]

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