1. BRK3178 - Maximize the power of SQL Azure with Dynamics AX
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BRK3178
BRK Maximize the power of SQL Azure with Dynamics AX
Sunil Agarwal
Christian Wolf
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2. AGENDA Topology in the cloud or on premise using SQL Server 2016
#DynTech2016
AGENDA
Topology in the cloud or on premise using SQL Server 2016
Managing cost performance
Real time operational analytics
In-memory OLTP for highly performant operations
Dynamics AX Entity store and scenarios

3. TOPOLOGY IN CLOUD OR ON-PREMISE
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TOPOLOGY IN CLOUD OR ON-PREMISE

4. (Azure BizTalk Services) Dynamics Life Cycle Services
Dynamics AX Platform
Visual Studio 2015 IDE
Identity
Data
App
Client
Tools
Windows
Universal App
(w/EMS MAM)
iOS
Android
HTML5
(Azure BizTalk Services)
Dynamics Integrator
Workspaces
App Suite
App Foundation
App Platform
Dynamics Life Cycle Services AX
ODataV4
Telemetry Enabled
Azure Compute
Azure SQL
(w/Operational Analytics)
Power BI
SSRS
Azure Blob
DocDB
Cortana Analytics
Azure AD

5. SQL Server in Dynamics AX topologies
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SQL Server in Dynamics AX topologies
Feature parity in SQL Azure DB and SQL Server 2016 enables deployments in cloud and on premise AX AX
Deploy
AX One-Box Developer topology
SQL Server 2016
AX Cloud topology
SQL Azure DB
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6. Managing Cost/Performance

7. SQL Database Service Tiers
Basic
Standard
Premium
Intended Use
Light transactional workloads
Go-to option for most business applications
High throughput and business-critical databases
Workload Elasticity
Isolated databases and elastic database pools
Performance • ••
•••
Business Continuity • ••
•••
Programming Surface
Fully compatible with SQL Server 2016 databases
Availability
99.99%*

8. Predictable performance
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Predictable performance
Isolated databases are allocated isolated resources
Scale up/down
Databases remain online while scaling
Hourly billing
P11 P6 P4 P2 P1 S3 S2 S1 S0 B 5 10 20 50
100
125
250
500
1000
1750
DTUs
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9. Elastic database pools
Share resources dynamically among databases on the same server/pool
Customer-managed over-provisioning makes pools cost-effective for unpredictable, sporadic workloads
Well-matched to many database-per-tenant SaaS workloads
Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers
Databases can burst to the same level as isolated DBs in the same tier
Pool size is scaled to support aggregate workload
Hourly billing for the pool based on pool size and DB count
Max per-database burst level
eDTUs
200
400
800
1200

10. How HA is achieved in AzureDB
SQL Azure provides high availability and Geo DR
Azure DB provides 3 always on copies
Data backup to blob store
Primary
Secondary same DC
Secondary Geo Paired DC

11. REAL TIME OPERATIONAL ANALYTICS

12. Minimizing Data Latency for Analytics
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Minimizing Data Latency for Analytics
Select ProduceName, ExpiryDate, Quantity, sum (sales)
From <transactions>
Where ProduceType =‘perishables’
Group By ProduceName, ExpiryDate
Insert into <transactions>
values (‘<upc-code>, ‘flowers’, $20.00)
SQL Server 2016
Database
Application Tier
Presentation Layer
IIS Server
Benefits
No Data Latency
No ETL
No Separate DW
Challenges
Minimizing Impact on OLTP workload
Delivering Performant Analytics
BI and analytics
Dashboards
Reporting
This is Real-Time Operational Analytics
SQL Server
Analysis Server
Add columnstore index
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13. Real-time Analytics Btree Index Nonclustered Columnstore Index (NCCI)
Relational Table (disk-based)
(Clustered Index/Heap)
Btree Index
delta
delta
Nonclustered columnstore index (NCCI)

14. Real-time Analytics: Minimizing Columnstore overhead
Real-time workload
AlwaysOn Availability Group
Analytics workload
Primary
Replica
Secondary Replica
Secondary
Insert into <transactions>
values (‘<upc-code>, ‘flowers’, $20.00)
Select ProduceName, ExpiryDate, Quantity, sum (sales)
From <transactions>
Where ProduceType =‘perishables’
Group By ProduceName, ExpiryDate
Key Points
Mission Critical Real-time Workloads typically configured for High Availability using AlwaysOn Availability Groups
You can offload analytics to readable secondary replica

15. Dynamics AX Data Read/write workloads Read only workloads
Analytics workloads
Read-only workloads: Charts, KPIs, Tiles, Operational Reports,
NCCIs
Sales Order entry, Sales confirmation, Print Invoices,
NCCIs
Predictions,
Near real-time Power BI,
CCIs
Primary DB
Secondary DB
Entity Store
Seconds
Minutes
Real Time
Near Real-time

16. DEMO: How AX leverages SQL Server Operational Analytics
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DEMO: How AX leverages SQL Server Operational Analytics
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17. DEMO: How LCS uses Query Store to enable a good troubleshooting experience

18. IN-MEMORY OLTP

19. Hardware Trends New CPU won’t run a short transaction much faster
Moore’s Law on total CPU processing power holds but in parallel processing…
New CPU won’t run a short transaction much faster
CPU clock rate stalled…
Because processors would melt…
Meanwhile RAM cost continues to drop

20. How AX7 uses In-Memory OLTP
Mark the table as Storage Mode = InMemory
Set Durability:
SchemaAndData: Data can be recreated after crash (from transaction log)
Schema: Data is lost after crash
System administrator has to accept the setup

21. DYNAMICS AX ENTITY STORE

22. Dynamics AX Data Read/write workloads Read only workloads
Analytics workloads
Sales Order entry, Sales confirmation, Print Invoices
Read-only workloads: Charts, KPIs, Tiles, Operational Reports
Predictions,
Near real-time Power BI
Primary DB
Secondary DB
Entity Store
Seconds
Minutes
Real Time
Near Real-time

23. Entity Store – key scenarios
High volume, Near real-time Power BI reporting
De-normalized schema, CCI to enable faster query responses, Incremental update from AX, Direct Query Power BI models
Intelligent business processes with Cortana Analytics suite
Stage data for Azure Data Factory pipelines, Consume in Azure Machine Learning
IoT, external data integration
Staging in Azure Data Lake and Azure Data warehouse

24. Entity store – key tenants
Designed for analytical scenarios
Azure DB entity store included in AX license
AX manages deployment and refresh
Optionally, customer can stage data in Azure DB, DL and DW for read-write scenarios
Coming soon to AX2012 R3

25. Summary SQL capability How AX7 leverages … Benefit to AX7
SQL server 2016, Cloud or on-prem
AX7 on-prem and Developer instances on SQL 2016
AX7 on public cloud uses Azure DB
One AX7 platform – two deployment options
Dynamic scaling of DB (Scaling DB, MALMO)
Increase the DB size as your business grows (and shrinks)
Multiple read-only DBs
Data access stack able to address multiple read-only DBs
Spread the load into multiple DB instances
Operational Analytics
Aggregate measurements
NCCI table indexes
Near real-time analytics on the same DB
In-memory OLTP
Set table properties
Leverage quick table access for tables satisfying constraints.

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