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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration A quick guide to install, configure, deploy, and administer Dynamics NAV with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198761
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Setting up the Environment for Dynamics NAV FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Dynamics NAV 3. Integrating Dynamics NAV with the Microsoft Platform 4. Securing Dynamics NAV Applications 5. Backing up and Restoring a Dynamics NAV Database 6. Performance Tuning 7. Setting up Periodic Activities, Stylesheets, and Rapid Implementation Methodology 8. Updating Objects and Virtualization with Dynamics NAV 9. Business Intelligence

Expanding the database


While SQL database files can be set to auto expand up to a certain limit. We have to manually expand a Dynamics NAV Classic database. The restore process can fail with an error if there is not enough space in the database to restore.

To expand the Dynamics NAV Classic database, let's follow these steps:

  1. 1. Go to File | Database | Expand... as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 2. The Expand Database window appears as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 3. Enter the size that we want to expand by in the Add (KB) field of the window or enter the desired database size in the New Size (KB) field of the window.

  2. 4. If we click on the Advanced... button of the Expand Database window, there is an option to add multiple database files while expanding the size of the database. We can add multiple files to the existing database. That way, we can spread the database across multiple files.

  3. 5. The Expand Database(Advanced) window appears as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 6. To monitor...

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