bcquality/microsoft/knowledge/upgrade/minimize-onvalidate-upgrade-triggers.md
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Improve partner onboarding and documentation navigation (#174)
Lead with a complete plugin quick start and add task-oriented usage, troubleshooting, customization, and contribution guides. Preserve the broader plugin framing, correct conflicting contract guidance, support Agents folder reviews, and align repository validation. Convert existing sample references to clickable links without changing knowledge rules.

Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-09 17:31:03 +02:00

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bc-version: [all]
domain: upgrade
keywords: [on-validate-upgrade-per-company, performance-impact, bounded-query, justification, read-only-check]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Keep upgrade validation checks bounded
## Description
Triggers such as `OnValidateUpgradePerCompany` run on every upgrade pass. A full-table scan or cross-table validation therefore adds cost to every upgrade of every tenant. Validation is a read-only lifecycle check, so it cannot make itself one-time by writing an upgrade tag.
## Best Practice
Filter directly to invalid rows and use `IsEmpty` or another bounded existence check where possible. If a broad validation is unavoidable, document the invariant that requires it and keep all data changes in `OnUpgrade...`.
See sample: [`minimize-onvalidate-upgrade-triggers.good.al`](minimize-onvalidate-upgrade-triggers.good.al).
## Anti Pattern
Reading every record in `OnValidateUpgradePerCompany` when a filtered existence check can prove the same invariant. The scan repeats on every upgrade.
See sample: [`minimize-onvalidate-upgrade-triggers.bad.al`](minimize-onvalidate-upgrade-triggers.bad.al).