Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sustained Engineering Team Blog

In some situations, using the SQLIndex property on a key in Microsoft Dynamics NAV can harm performance. In this blog I describe what to be careful about, and why the use of this property has been removed in the NAV 5 SP1 application. The property...

One of the major changes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV version 5 SP1 (in relation to performance on SQL Server), is a new way to send queries to SQL Server. In previous versions of NAV, we some times saw SQL Server 2005 optimizing query plans for extreme...

I spent last week performing a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 Update 1 to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 database conversion for a customer. The process went very smoothly and the customer was very excited about the increase in performance we were able to...

Bulk Inserts is a new feature in NAV 5.0 SP1 which is designed to improve performance when inserting multiple records by delaying the physical inserts on the SQL Server. Before this change, inserts happen in the order that the C/AL code is running...