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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide Get up and running with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612769
Length 210 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Codeunits - Structuring C/AL Code 3. Tables - Creating Data Structure 4. Designing User Interface 5. Exchanging Data with XML Ports 6. NAV Event Model 7. Presenting Data in Reports 8. Debugging Your Code 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining the primary key and secondary indexes

We created several tables in previous sections, but never defined primary keys. This means that the development environment decided which fields to use for primary keys for us. In C/SIDE, the first field in the table automatically becomes its primary key and the clustered index. Now we will review and adjust primary keys and define indexes that will help us improve application performance.

Defining primary keys

When a new table is created, the primary key is created automatically by the Object Designer. The first field defined in the table is assigned as the single primary key field. This is not always the primary key the developer means for the table. Let's see how to change...

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