CRM 4 Update Rollup 8 is out

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=975995 and http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c53b2916-6b93-4092-bdd3-a394c96ca000

I've not had a chance to test it yet. One welcome inclusion is an optimisation to the Import Organisation process (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977867/ ), though interestingly you have to add a registry value to enable the optimisation.

There's also appraently a fix to the 'dsMain' error with Report Wizard, as described here

Analysing SQL Queries in CRM environments

I've another post here on the Dynamics CRM team blog describing some techniques I use to make effective use of SQL Profiler and SQL Management Studio. This post also references a tool I published here on the MSDN Code Gallery

New Code Gallery resource - sp_executesql parser

I've added a new code resource to the MSDN code gallery. This is a simple tool to parse calls to sp_executesql. The reason for it is that the SQL tools cannot show the execution plan for calls to sp_executesql, which is a pain when doing performance analysis of these queries. So, I created a tool that replaces the manual editing process.

Soon, I'll post a more detailed description of SQL performance analysis for CRM implementations, which will reference this tool.