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Microsoft Dynamics AX Team Highlights Use of SQL Server 2012 Features with AX 2012

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

With the official launch of SQL Server 2012 this week, the Microsoft Dynamics AX team has laid out some of the ways AX 2012 utilizes the latest database release, including improvements in performance and scalability, better visualization, and more self-service reporting.

AX 2012 will be able to take advantage of the new SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups to allow for some of the general benefits of high availability and failover, but also to improve reporting performance of from AX by turning to allowing ISVs to "leverage the read-only secondaries in SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups to offload some of the data warehousing needs to help reduce the load on the OLTP database." Performance problems have been cited by customers in the past as one of the reasons few customers utilize out of

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As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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