Dynamics CRM 2011 SQL MetadataSchema Primary Name Attribute - dynamics-crm-2011

I am trying to create a custom Audit summary report based on a date range that needs to be emailed nightly. I've got most of it working, but need some help with getting the primary name/field/attribute for a referenced entity. I noticed in the Audit view for a referenced entity, the data is stored like 'systemuser;'. What I would like to do is grab the Primary Field (Primary Name, Primary Attribute, whatever it's called) to display on the report. Does anyone know how to find the Primary Name attribute for an entity using the MetadataSchema views in the CRM SQL database? I have found the Primary Key field by looking at the MetadataSchema.Attribute.IsPKAttribute field, but I don't see anything for the Primary Name field.
Also, I am grabbing the current values from the entities if there are no following audit entries. For the lookup fields (like owner or customer) how can I tell from the Metadata what field stores the ObjectTypeCode? For example, if I was looking up the customer on a sales order, I know I can look at CustomerIdType field to find the ObjectTypeCode, but I need to find that the field is called CustomerIdType from the metadata.
If anyone has any good references on the Metadata from the SQL side of CRM, I would greatly appreciate it.

SQL query to get primary fields for all entities
SELECT e.Name as 'entity', a.Name as 'primary field'
FROM [dbo].EntityView e
left join [dbo].AttributeView a on e.EntityId = a.EntityId
where (a.DisplayMask & 256) > 0 --256 is for primary field
order by e.name
There are two cases to get object type code of lookup
append Type to field name (i.e. CustomerIdType)
if above is not available, get it from AttributeMetadata
SELECT ReferencedEntityObjectTypeCode
FROM [Discworld_MSCRM].[dbo].[AttributeView]
where name = '<field name>' and entityid = '<entity id>'
I'm not sure what exact rules are for Type fields to exist

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Kentico - Unable to find a custom user column

I just took over a project from a developer who has already left an organisation and I'm doing some maintenance work in the project. I can see the following code in a custom web part
CurrentUserInfo CurrentUser = MembershipContext.AuthenticatedUser;
DateTime ExpirationDate = CurrentUser.GetValue("aps_expirationdate", DateTime.Now);
The strange thing is, I cannot seem to find this custom field 'aps_expirationdate' anywhere in the system or in the database.
I checked the following places but couldn't find it.
Checked Membership module 'User' class and 'User - Settings' class
Checked 'User' module
Did a manual Sql Search in the database to find a table with a column name 'aps_expirationdate'
but I cannot seem to find this column anywhere and the other strange thing is, when I debug the code it does return a date value. No bugs in the code so, cannot say that this is an invalid column name. Where else should I look?
Based on what you've put in your initial question, it sounds as if the column was added manually and not through the Kentico UI. In order for the data access layer or the Kentico API to know that field exists, the definition has to be stored within the Kentico module class and not just in the database.
Here's what I'd do to correct this:
Find what table the field exists in. If you want the custom field to be part of the User or User Settings objects then they need to be added to either the CMS_User or CMS_UserSetting table.
If the field does not exist in either the CMS_User or CMS_UserSetting table, then go to the Modules app in the Kentico UI.
In the Modules App, go to Membership > Classes > Users > Fields and add the aps_expirationdate field.
If you have data in the field aps_expirationdate in the other table, write a query to copy it from the other table to the CMS_User table.
Now the API call as noted above will work.
If the field is already in the CMS_User or CMS_UserSetting table, then you will have to do the following:
In SSMS, rename that field to aps_expirationdate_old.
In the Modules App, go to Membership > Classes > Users > Fields and add the aps_expirationdate field.
Assuming you have data in the aps_expirationdate_old field in the CMS_User or CMS_UserSetting table, write a query to copy it from the other table to the CMS_User table.
Your last bullet point states you "Did a manual Sql Search in the database to find a table with a column name 'aps_expirationdate'". This contradicts what you state at the end of your question which states "I cannot seem to find this column anywhere". If you cannot find what table the aps_expirationdate exists in, then check out the following SO answer to find that column in a given database.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4849704/698678

How to get id field with group by in Django

I am trying to fetch group by data in Django. I`m using postgres database
How I Can write Django query like this SQL query:-
SELECT id FROM table_name WHERE name=%s GROUP BY name"
I am trying with Model.objects.filter().values('id').annotate(count=Count('name')).order_by('name') but not get unique name`s id in QuerySet
and also try
Product.objects.filter(id__in=RawSQL(f"SELECT id FROM product_product WHERE name=%s GROUP BY name", (key,)))
but got error
"column \"product_product.id\" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function\nLINE 1: ..._product\" WHERE \"product_product\".\"id\" IN (SELECT id FROM pr...
model.objects.filter(user=id).values('name').annotate(dcount=Count('name')).order_by()
You need to specify a filter value when u want to filter data from the model.
The value field takes in the value you want not the id
Then you annotate it.
For more information you can read the django documentation: here

Netsuite. Saved Search, how to join another table

I'm trying to make Saved Search which has Transaction fields that I want to join any other type's fields.
When I make Criteria, Result in Saved Search, I realized there is limitation to bring certain field.
I know the Type & Internal ID, so I used formula(numeric) and insert custom_item.realamount(This is actually what I want to know). But this wasn't show a value.
How can I make these two types to join each other?
There is no field in Netsuite called custom_item If you are trying to join a custom item field on a transaction search formula field then you'd be looking at a join like
{item.custitem_uniquepart_}
Where _uniquepart_ is either an integer if the custom field was created without a custom id value or it's the value entered for the id field of the custom field.

Azure Table Storage - remove columns

I think this is not possible, but however I ask the question, maybe I have missed something.
Can we add/remove columns from an azure table?
For example by default we get those columns: PartitionKey, RowKey, Timestamp, ETag. Can I add for example another 3: FirstName, LastName, Email columns?
After that I will insert some values and I want to remove column Email and add instead column Address. Can we do this?
As Igor rightly said, Azure Tables do not have the concept of rows and columns. A table can contain zero or more entities and each entity can have a maximum of 255 attributes (an attribute is a name/value/type). Off of these 255 attributes, 3 of them are system attributes (PartitionKey, RowKey and Timestamp) which you can't update through your code. When creating an entity you define PartitionKey and RowKey and after that they become readonly properties. So when it comes to updating an entity, you can only update 252 attributes.
To manage data in an Azure Table, there's a REST API and you provide attributes of an entity in the request body. Azure Storage provides two ways by which you can update an entity - Update and Merge.
When you tell Azure Table Service to Update an entity, it simply drops all the existing attributes for that entity, and inserts the attributes defined in the request payload.
When you tell Azure Table Service to Merge an entity, it looks at the existing entity attributes and compares them with the attributes defined in the request payload. If it finds matching attributes, it simply updates those attributes. If the attributes are not present in existing entity but are defined in request payload, those attributes get added to the entity. If the attribute are present in existing entity but are not defined in request payload, they are not changed.
Now coming to your problem.
So let's say you already have an entity where you just defined PartitionKey and RowKey. Now you want to add FirstName, LastName, Email attributes. Because these attributes are not there in the entity, you can either use Merge or Replace to update the entity and these attributes will be added to the entity.
Now you want to drop Email attribute from an entity and instead add Address attribute to that entity. What you will do is perform an Update operation on that entity where your request body will have FirstName, LastName and Address attributes only (no Email attribute). When you update the entity with this request payload, Email attribute will be removed from the entity.
Azure Tables do not have "columns" as SQL tables do. Azure Tables have entities. Each entity has up to 255 properties. Most tools that let you look at an Azure table, choose to visualize the data in it tabular with columns. However, in reality, each entity (row) is a collection of properties.
Therefore, you can save objects/entities into an Azure Table with different properties, everytime you do a save. It makes things somewhat confusing, but you can do it.
HTH
I think programmatic answers given above is the best solution in terms of achieving the functionality.
But in case, you are working in the development mode and you have inserted an unnecessary attribute which you want to remove. you can do the same by using azure storage explorer.
You can export the table of choice, delete the property in the CSV file and import it back in new table. drop the existing table and rename the new table to the existing one. This is kind of a work around.

Finding Lookup item numerical values in MS Dynamics

I have a site powered by ExpressionEngine 2.5.x, using Freeform, integrated to post form data to MS Dynamics CRM 2011. The extension is nicely scalable, I can change the mapping, all that excellent stuff. My problem is how to find mapping values for Lookup fields in MS Dynamics.
I am trying to map form fields from the site forms, into MS Dynamics. Some of the fields are Lookups, in MS Dynamics. Our mapping calls out the numerical value of the Lookup item, rather than its name. (Which is good, because ppl can change the text names in the MS Dynamics console without breaking the mapping.)
My question is: I know how to find the actual back-end field names of form fields within MS Dynamics. But how to I find the numerical values of the picklist items and lookup fields? Say I have a Lookup field, for Lead Source (called campaignid). The items are:
web
online
radio ad
flyer
word of mouth
other
I know that when I edit options in an option set, I can see their numerical value. Where can I edit options in a lookup field? I've tried looking under Settings > Customizations > Customize the System, but didn't see anything called lookup.
Lookups are pointers to entities. They do not have numerical values like regular option sets. So I guess that you will have entity called Campaign (or lead) so you can check which campaigns exist in the crm DB where each entity will have view in the DB.
Let's see if i understand your question. You don't have a Lookup option like Option Set because a lookup is consequence of a relationship 1:N between two entities. So for edit a lookup you need edit a record of a entity. In lookup fields you don't have numerical values, you have guid that represent individually a record, so in a record a lookup is stored in database as a guid. Check this video.
Check here how find this guid with the record open.
A look-up field is, roughly speaking a pointer to en entity (in C# it's referred to as EntityReference instead of Entity) and it consist mainly of a guid and logical name of something.
Usually, in the code, when you have an entity, in order to access the fields of its lookup-connected entity, you'll need to make an extra query for that.
So, if you have a Contact instance and need to see the address of its parent customer, you'll have to get the guid and logical name (in this case it'll be Account) and retrieve the data for it separately.
EDIT:
Suppose that you have created an instance of Contact entity and you'd like to access its lastName field. Then you can simply refer to it as follows.
var value = Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“lastName”).getValue();
On the same form, there's also a field that refers to an Account instance (its name is parentCustomerId. Suppose now that you'd like to get the fullName field of the Account. One could expect the following to work.
var account = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("parentCusomterId").getValue();
var name = account.getAttribute("fullName").getValue();
However, that's not going to work, because the parentCutomerId is a look-up field. It means that it only contains a guid (a pointer, a reference) identifying an other entity. You'll have to use it (the guid) in order to fetch the instance that the look-up is "mentioning". Then you'll be able to check it's properties.

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