Check your data via SQL

 Sometimes we need to check or validate some data in a dev box. The fastest way to do that is to run a query directly in MS SQL management studio.

For example, I have hundreds legal entities and want to know in which of them I have some Purchase orders. Voila:

select
dataareaid as Company, count(RECID) as 'Number of PO'
from PURCHTABLE
group by DATAAREAID
having count(RECID) > 1