Recently I was debugging a very interesting deadlock case which I want to share in a blog post now. It was especially curious because, as...

It has been said so many times that filtering on FlowFields is bad for performance that we are used to avoiding this kind of filters in...

Following my series of posts where I have been addressing various aspects of table indexing, this post delves into the same old argument...

According to this article on Microsoft Learn portal , non-clustered columnstore indexes (or NCCI) are seen as a possible replacement for...

Development of Business Central extensions is very much about the database communication, and as AL developers, we always control the...

Yes, I'm back again on this inexhaustible topic. The question of weather the call of IsEmpty before FindSet in AL can have a positive...

In two of my previous blog posts I reviewed some pros and cons of the SumIndexField Technology (or SIFT) in Business Central. On the one...

This post is a result of one very fruitful discussion with many knowledgeable Business Central enthusiasts in a long LinkedIn thread. Now...

My previous post was dedicated to an overview of Business Central's SumIndexField Technology, or simply SIFT, which helps us collect...

SIFT, which stands for Sum Index Flow Technology, used to be a know-how in the Navision database, a data structure that stored...

RecordLevelLocking function in AL is a heritage of the C/SIDE times and the Navision native database. In those old days when Navision...

Let's assume we want to select a set of customer ledger entries based on two values: salesperson code and the payment reference. Or any...

A long time ago (in a galaxy far away) I published some blog posts with a deeper overview of the Business Central's ReadIsolation...

Much has been said recently about the benefits of the Azure SQL for Business Central performance, and in particular a few articles...

My previous post on good and bad coding practices in terms of the performance touched upon one particularly contradictory coding pattern...

This post is my shortlist of the most common beginners' mistakes in AL that affect application performance. These are not necessarily the...

Continuing performance testing of queries on extended Business Central tables, today I want to look at the same dataset from a slightly...

Server-side perspective One of the key characteristics of the C/AL language and its more modern ancestor, AL, that makes it so attractive...

Today, once again, I am returning to the topic of table locking, lock escalation, and the way Business Central interacts with SQL Server...

The effects of SetLoadFields and AutoCalcFields on caching This post continues the topic of query caching in Business Central which I...