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Andrey Baludin
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Andrey Baludin is a solution architect and is currently employed with Awara IT Solutions (Gold Microsoft Partner). His educational qualifications includes a masters degree from St.Petersburg Polytechnic University. Andrey is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV since 2008 from 5.0 to the latest versions of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Andrey is a real fan of Business Central and Azure, and his specialization is integrating Business Central with everything
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Data migration

The full migration process is divided into two stages:

  • Data migration
  • Data upgrade

You can run data migration several times, for example, by synchronizing your companies from on-premise to SaaS one by one, by cleaning your data in the destination point, and by only upgrading your data at the end as a final step, when you are sure that everything has been correctly migrated.

Microsoft describes the migration process with the following schema:

Figure 10.1 – The data migration process

You might have a question about the per database tables synchronization. Take a look at Figure 10.2. It is from Microsoft Business Central Launch Event 2022 wave 1. What if we sync the Company 1 tables with the per database tables and then sync the Company 2 tables with the per database tables again? If we overwrite the per database tables each time, data could have been already changed in such tables and links could have become broken...

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Andrey Baludin

Andrey Baludin is a solution architect and is currently employed with Awara IT Solutions (Gold Microsoft Partner). His educational qualifications includes a masters degree from St.Petersburg Polytechnic University. Andrey is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV since 2008 from 5.0 to the latest versions of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Andrey is a real fan of Business Central and Azure, and his specialization is integrating Business Central with everything
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