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Move historical data to non-indexed tables for reduced costs

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Business value

Over the years, companies typically generate and store a large volume of commerce transactions. These transactions are useful for the first few months to help with returns, but day-to-day operations don't require the records after that time. While you might still need these records for historical reporting, auditing, machine learning, or legal claims, keeping a large volume of historical commerce transactions in your day-to-day working environment results in increased storage costs. It also affects system performance and usability.

Feature details

This feature uses the standard data archival solution in the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations application platform to archive your historical commerce transactions. Administrators set up logical rules to control when and how to archive commerce transactions. The solution moves transactions from an active high-efficiency, costly data store to non-indexed data storage for historical reporting, auditing, machine learning, legal claims, and other purposes.

Screenshot highlighting the Commerce order archive and Commerce transactions archive options.

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Additional resources

Archive Commerce transactions (docs)