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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

SumIndexfields functionality


SumIndexfields are a special feature of Dynamics NAV that give it the power to calculate FlowFields on a large scale. It is a decimal field that can be assigned in the Key section, as shown in the following screenshot:

SumIndexfields has always been a part of Dynamics NAV, which gives it a unique capability that, if calculated with a normal approach, is generally inefficient.

As has been said, too much sugar leads to diabetes. Similarly, excessive use of keys or SIFT fields can negatively affect the system's performance. The two main performance issues are:

  • The index maintenance processing load

  • The table locking interference

The table locking interference occurs when multiple threads request update access to a set of records that affect the SIFT values.

On the other hand, lack of necessary keys or SIFT definitions can also cause severe performance issues.