Even more Pack Publishing books

More NAV books to read from Pack Publishing: “Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration” book and “Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook“.
I just started with the Cookbook [I am not a great cook and maybe I learn how to cook ].
I just read the first 2 chapters I and found them boring. But, after all, the […]

Filtering on field type Record ID

 
Filtering on field type RecordID can be tricky because there is a difference between NAV2009SP1 and the versions before.
 
I want find the record links of a record in the database. (In my example I just used the first record in table 3:”Payment Terms” for which to find its records).
 
I created a form on table 2000000068:”Record […]

I have restored a 50GB DB on a 20GB-disk

NEVER COMPRESS A DATABASE-FILE!
 
Well, I didn’t! I just virtually restored the database.
 
Eh? What?
 
Time for some explanation:
I have a customer that has a database of about 50 GB of data. And all the files are about 60GB.
The native compressed SQL backup (they use SQL 2008 Enterprise) is about 8GB. No data or page compression is used.
 
As […]

What is the difference between Private memory, Working set and Virtual size?

What do you mean with “I don’t know”?
 
Well, actually, neither did I until I saw these movies:
http://player.microsoftpdc.com/Session/1689962d-dea2-48bd-80d8-96e954fa5329
http://player.microsoftpdc.com/Session/1c97b279-d7e3-4a3e-9a76-0dac23dfddb5
 
It shows you the different counters (and different terminologies used by different programs for the same thing [I am using Process explorer and Mark Russinovich (the writer of Process explorer) advices to use it instead of the Windows taskmanager […]

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