License file in SQL

A lot of times there are questions about the license in SQL. How to import it? At what scope serves the “Save license in database” toggle in Tab integration?
 
Here a short explanation:
 
*File=>Database=>Alter=>Tab Integration=>Save license in database.
A license can be cut to be used at server level (this means the same license and the same number […]

Set based thinking in NAV

As we all (should) know, SQL is based on sets and NAV works iterative with records.
Sometimes it is possible to do set based programming also in NAV.
I just found an example in which we can speed up something thinking in sets (1 record is also a set!) instead of iterative. The beautiful thing is: it […]

How to work with record-variables?

Lately I have very little time to write blogs or to be online in general. But I found some time anyway to write a new how-to. Took me over a month anyway to write it.
I have noticed too many times that a lot of people use record-variables in a completely wrong way.
The smaller errors just […]

Cache on native database

We all know that the theoretical limit is 1GB for the cache on the native database.
But the practical maximum we ever reached (or heard/read from others) is around 850MB.
The same for me. I never installed or heard someone install a native database service and got over that 850MB limit (and sometimes even getting there is […]

Moving from native C/SIDE to SQL by Mark Brummel

Mark told me that his session was more-or-less the same as for Directions US. But I didn’t follow that so I will blog anyway.
Waldo already blogged about the session, so I would suggest to read also his blog (http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/waldo/archive/2007/11/09/directions-diary-dev-session-migrating-from-c-side-to-sql.aspx).
SQL benefits are :
-better performancee
-higher availability
-better backup/recovery
-new technologies (analysis/reporting/integration services)
-64 bit technology.
Upgrade path for NAV2009 (this one […]

Hardware recomendations to make installations hum By Eric Wouters

Eric will probably not blog about this session for obvious reasons.
I am not writing everything he said or showed, only the things that are most important or something I didn’t know myself.
In general performance problems are created by the application (80-90%) and sometimes (10-20% by infrastructure).

Maximum size for Navision DB’s

A lot of times, my colleagues ask me what the maximum size is for a Navision DB. And I suppose a lot of other persons want to know too.
This is the answer (or better: these are the answers):
3.01..5.00 : 256 GB (maximum 16 files of maximum 16 GB)
2.50..2.65 : 64 GB (maximum 16 files of […]

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