One instance with multi country databases

vmurthy

Hi all,

Is it possible to have One instance with multi country databses? for e.g. UK, USA and India databases in one instance.

kapamarou

Does this help?

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vmurthy

Does that mean i need to buy different licenses for each country?

matttrax

Sadly I know all about this. Thankfully we didn't implement it

In order to have multiple localizations (countries) in a single database instance, you will need to merge the code from each of those localizations into a W1 database. That code will only execute based on some flag that indicates which localization the company belongs to. It's like an overly complicated upgrade scenario and I can only imagine that the testing is a nightmare: ie when you get a US database you expect taxes to calculate correctly, but when you merge tax code yourself and want to make sure you didn't miss anything, you'd better know a lot about taxes.

You'll also need access to the country specific objects. For this Microsoft provides something called a cross versioning license (I think that's what it is called). In a nutshell, you buy a single user license for that country and are then allowed to use those objects in a custom object range in your own database.

If you are an end user I would definitely suggest contacting your partner as there are a lot of things to consider.