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Dropped table on the SQL database

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Posted on by Pete Alberts 3,542

I work with an on-premises D365 box. (Don't know the correct terminology.)

With the PU12 7.3 (or something) update, there were changes on the CustInvoiceTrans  table which resulted in a build fail due to a unique index violation.

I was instructed by a senior to drop the table on the SQL database. (Apparently in AX2012 this worked fine: drop the table implicitly deletes all data and then on next build the table is created again and you can move forward on a clean slate.)

Now the table is gone and I can't get it back. Building CustInvoiceTrans results in an error. Building Foundation results in an error. Full Build results in an error. Paraphrasing: "The table CustInvoiceTrans could not be found or does not exist". (I can build CustInvoiceTrans without synchronise - no errors, but that isn't really helpful to say the least.)

This wasn't a problem until now as I wasn't working with the table. But now I do...........

Any solutions?

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    André Arnaud de Cal... 301,075 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi Pete,

    The storage and handling is a bit different now in D365. Rather than just dropping the table, you could then better delete the records only. If you do drop tables, make sure you have a backup available.  Probably you can use a backup to get the table back? Otherwise try to get the table from another environment.

    You can try to delete related records from the SQLDictionary table as well. If the current data is important, make a backup of the database first.

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    Pete Alberts 3,542 on at

    Thanks. I generated the SQL script from a similar environment and used it to create the table in the database. Successfull build.

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    Pete Alberts 3,542 on at

    I was lying - the build is still running. I'll post again if there are errors.

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