MODULE 7: CONFIGURATION OF DATABASE

INSTANCES
Module Overview
When you implement Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail, you create a
database for each store location. This database is called the store database. You
can connect multiple point-of-sale (POS) computers to the same store database to
read and write data. This helps ensure that the same master data is available to all
POS computers.
A store database typically resides on a shared server that is connected to all of the
POS computers in the store. You can also create offline databases on POS
computers. An offline database helps ensure that the stores operations can
continue even if the connection to the shared database server is lost. If the
connection to the shared database server is lost, the POS computers switch to
offline databases. The shared database and the offline databases are kept in sync
by Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail Offline Sync Service.
This module provides guidance only for setting up Microsoft SQL Server in a Retail
implementation
The module Installation and Configuration of AX Retail Store POS provides an
overview for the following:

Installing the Retail Store Database Utility.

Creating a store database or an offline database.

Setting up a store database profile.

Objectives

Describe settings that are required for PCI compliance

Describe SQL Server collation settings for Retail POS databases

Describe SQL logons and database permissions

Enable remote connections and TCP/IP

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Configuration of Database Instances

This topic provides guidance about how to set up Microsoft SQL Server in a Retail
implementation.

Settings that Are Required For PCI Compliance

To comply with the PCI Data Security Standard, you must enter specific settings
during SQL Server setup. The following table describes these settings.
Wizard Location

Required Settings

Server Configuration page, Service

Accounts tab:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc281953.aspx

Specify dedicated logon

accounts that are not default
accounts.

Database Engine Configuration page,

Account Provisioning tab:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc281849.aspx

Select Windows
authentication.
Specify SQL Server
administrators, but do not
use any default accounts.

SQL Server Collation Settings For Retail POS Databases

The collation for each Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail POS database is based on
the Windows locale. To avoid collation issues, verify that the Windows locale of
each database computer in the store is set to one of the supported locales for
Retail.

SQL Logons and Database Permissions

A SQL logon for the user account for Commerce Data Exchange: Synch Service is
created automatically when you create an instance of Synch Service. The instance
of Synch Service uses this logon to access the Synch Service message database. If
you change the user account for Synch Service, on the server where Synch Service
is installed, create a SQL logon that has the same name as the Synch Service
domain user. The logon must have read and write, or db_datareader and
db_datawriter, permissions on the message database.

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Enable Remote Connections and TCP/IP
Any instance of SQL Server that must be accessed from a remote computer must
be set up to accept remote connections. For example, any computer on which a
Synch Service message database is installed without an instance of Synch Service
must accept remote connections. Make sure that the TCP/IP protocol is also
enabled for SQL Server instances that are accessed remotely.

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Module Review
To set up Microsoft SQL Server in a Retail implementation, specify settings and set
up remote connections as follows:

Settings that are required for PCI compliance

SQL Server collation settings for Retail POS databases

SQL logons and database permissions

Enable remote connections and TCP/IP

The module Installation and Configuration of AX Retail Store POS provides

further detailed set up guidance.

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