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Symptoms

When you run Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, or Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 the AsyncOperationBase table grows to be very large. When the table contains millions of records, performance is slow.

Additionally, errors that resemble the following are logged in the application event log on the server that is running Microsoft Dynamics CRM:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: MSCRMDeletionService

Event Category: None

Event ID: 16387

Date: 2009/01/26

Time: 11:41:54 AM

User: N/A

Computer: CRMSERVER

Description: Error: Deletion Service failed to clean up table=CleanupInactiveWorkflowAssembliesProcedure For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Resolution

To resolve this problem, perform a cleanup of the AsyncOperationBase table by running the following script against the<OrgName>_MSCRM database, where the placeholder<OrgName> represents the actual name of your organization.

Warning Before you clean up the data, be aware that completed system jobs have business value in some cases and have to be stored for a long period. Therefore, you should discuss this with your organization's administration staff first.

System jobs that are affected:

  • SQM data collection. Software Quality Metrics collects data for the customer experience program.

  • Update Contract States SQL job. This job runs one time per day at midnight. This job sets the expired contracts to a state of Expired.

  • Organization Full Text Catalog Index. Populates full text index in db for searching Microsoft Knowledge Base articles in CRM.


If recurring jobs were canceled, they will be removed.

Notes

  • For Microsoft Dynamics CRM The SQL script in this Knowledge Base article is a one-time effort only. You can add this as a SQL job to run on a recurring nightly, weekly, or monthly basis. As your CRM runs, you have to either apply this article weekly, depending on your business needs, or apply the solution by writing custom BULK DELETE jobs. (Refer to our CRM SDK documentation on the BulkDeleteRequest.QuerySet property, on the BulkDeleteRequest class, and on the order of deletion)

  • Make sure that the AsyncOperation records for workflows and the corresponding records are deleted from the WorkflowLogBase object.

  • Make sure that all the corresponding bulkdeletefailure, and bulkdeleteoperation records are deleted.

  • Make sure that only the following Async operation types are deleted if the state code of the types is 3 and the status code of the types is 30 or 32:

    • Workflow Expansion Task (1)

    • Collect SQM data (9)

    • PersistMatchCode (12)

    • FullTextCatalogIndex (25)

    • UpdateContractStates (27)

    • Workflow (10)

IF EXISTS (SELECT name from sys.indexes
WHERE name = N'CRM_AsyncOperation_CleanupCompleted')
DROP Index AsyncOperationBase.CRM_AsyncOperation_CleanupCompleted
GO
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX CRM_AsyncOperation_CleanupCompleted
ON [dbo].[AsyncOperationBase] ([StatusCode],[StateCode],[OperationType])
GO

while(1=1)
begin
declare @DeleteRowCount int = 10000
declare @rowsAffected int
declare @DeletedAsyncRowsTable table (AsyncOperationId uniqueidentifier not null primary key)
insert into @DeletedAsyncRowsTable(AsyncOperationId)
Select top (@DeleteRowCount) AsyncOperationId from AsyncOperationBase
where
OperationType in (1, 9, 12, 25, 27, 10)
AND StateCode = 3
AND StatusCode in (30, 32)

select @rowsAffected = @@rowcount
delete poa from PrincipalObjectAccess poa
join WorkflowLogBase wlb on
poa.ObjectId = wlb.WorkflowLogId
join @DeletedAsyncRowsTable dart on
wlb.AsyncOperationId = dart.AsyncOperationId
delete WorkflowLogBase from WorkflowLogBase W, @DeletedAsyncRowsTable d
where
W.AsyncOperationId = d.AsyncOperationId
delete BulkDeleteFailureBase From BulkDeleteFailureBase B, @DeletedAsyncRowsTable d
where
B.AsyncOperationId = d.AsyncOperationId
delete BulkDeleteOperationBase From BulkDeleteOperationBase O, @DeletedAsyncRowsTable d
where
O.AsyncOperationId = d.AsyncOperationId
delete WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase from WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase WS, @DeletedAsyncRowsTable d
where
WS.AsyncOperationId = d.AsyncOperationID
delete AsyncOperationBase From AsyncOperationBase A, @DeletedAsyncRowsTable d
where
A.AsyncOperationId = d.AsyncOperationId
/*If not calling from a SQL job, use the WAITFOR DELAY*/
if(@DeleteRowCount > @rowsAffected)
return
else
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02.000'
end



Improving the performance of the deletion script

  • To improve overall Microsoft Dynamics CRM performance, schedule the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deletion Service to run during off-peak hours for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. By default, the service runs at the time that Microsoft Dynamics CRM was installed. However, you can set the service to run at 10:00 PM instead of at the default time. To do this, use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM ScaleGroup Job Editor. For more information, visit the following CodePlex website:

    http://crmjobeditor.codeplex.com/Notes

    1. This action does not directly affect the performance of the script.

    2. The job editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has been depecrated and is no longer available.

  • To improve the performance of the deletion scripts in this article and to improve the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deletion Service code that runs similar deletions, add the following three indexes to the OrganizationName_MSCRM database before you run the deletion script in this article:

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX CRM_WorkflowLog_AsyncOperationID ON [dbo].[WorkflowLogBase] ([AsyncOperationID])
    GO

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX CRM_DuplicateRecord_AsyncOperationID ON [dbo].[DuplicateRecordBase] ([AsyncOperationID])
    GO

    CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX CRM_BulkDeleteOperation_AsyncOperationID ON [dbo].[BulkDeleteOperationBase]
    (AsyncOperationID)
    GO

    Note If you do not add these indexes, the deletion script may take hours to run.

  • Stop the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service while you run this script.

  • Optional Rebuild the following indexes and update statistics:

    -- Rebuild Indexes & Update Statistics on AsyncOperationBase Table 
    ALTER INDEX ALL ON AsyncOperationBase REBUILD WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, ONLINE = OFF,SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF)
    GO
    -- Rebuild Indexes & Update Statistics on WorkflowLogBase Table
    ALTER INDEX ALL ON WorkflowLogBase REBUILD WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, ONLINE = OFF,SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF)

    GO
  • Optional Update Statistics with Full Scan on all the tables that are involved with this query by using the following commands (preferably at off peak hours):

    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[AsyncOperationBase] WITH FULLSCAN
    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[DuplicateRecordBase] WITH FULLSCAN
    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[BulkDeleteOperationBase] WITH FULLSCAN
    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[WorkflowCompletedScopeBase] WITH FULLSCAN
    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[WorkflowLogBase] WITH FULLSCAN
    UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase] WITH FULLSCAN
  • Optional Change the MSCRM database's recovery model to Simple to avoid excess generation of Microsoft SQL Server logs. For SQL Server 2005, log on to the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator, right-click your <org_name>_MSCRM database, click Properties, click Options, and then click Recovery Model. Mark Simple, and then click OK. After you run this script the first time, the <org_name>_MSCRM database recovery model should be switched back to FULL for the best data-recoverability model.

  • To increase performance of the script, the @DeleteRowCount value of 10,000 can be reduced



To determine the number of records to be deleted by the script in this article, run the following count script against the OrganizationName_MSCRM database:

                
Select Count(AsyncOperationId)from AsyncOperationBase WITH (NOLOCK)
where OperationType in (1, 9, 12, 25, 27, 10)
AND StateCode = 3 AND StatusCode IN (30,32)


Script error

When you run the cleanup script, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "asyncoperation_workflowwaitsubscription". The conflict occurred in database "Contoso_MSCRM", table "dbo.WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase", column 'AsyncOperationId'.The statement has been terminated.



If you receive this error message, stop the cleanup script, and then follow these steps to remove the remaining WorkflowWaitSubscription records that exist for completed or canceled workflows. These records should no longer exist, because they should have been deleted when the workflows were completed or canceled. You should not see any records that are returned from this query. Anything left in the WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase table that appears in this query is an orphaned record. You cannot delete these records through the UI because the Microsoft CRM Async process is in a canceled or completed state.

The following script will verify how many orphaned WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase records exist for completed and canceled workflow records:

select count(*) from workflowwaitsubscriptionbase WITH (NOLOCK) 

where asyncoperationid in

(Select asyncoperationid from AsyncOperationBase WITH (NOLOCK)

where OperationType in (1, 9, 12, 25, 27, 10)

AND StateCode = 3 AND StatusCode IN (30,32))


The following script will delete WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase records for stranded WorkflowWaitSubscriptionBase records for completed and canceled workflow records:

delete from workflowwaitsubscriptionbase 
where asyncoperationid in(Select asyncoperationidfrom AsyncOperationBase
where OperationType in (1, 9, 12, 25, 27, 10)
AND StateCode = 3 AND StatusCode IN (30,32))

After this delete statement is executed, the AsyncoperationBase and Workflow cleanup script will complete successfully.



More Information

For more information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

954929 The AsyncOperation entity consumes a significant part of the [Org]_MSCRM database and causes poor performance in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

957871 The Workflow Expansion Task records cause the AsyncOperationBase table in the MSCRM database to grow too large in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updatesFor more information about Microsoft Business Solutions CRM software hotfix and update package terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

887283 Microsoft Business Solutions CRM software hotfix and update package naming standards

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