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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 The compilation of best skillset to harness Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Administrators, Consultants, and Developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464309
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rabindra Sah Rabindra Sah
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Preface 1. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Upgraded Features and Configuration in Dynamics NAV 2016 3. The C/AL and VB Programming 4. Testing and Debugging 5. Design and Development Considerations 6. Version Control and Code Management 7. Tuning Up the NAV System 8. Security in Dynamics NAV 2016 9. Upgrade and Migration 10. Interfacing NAV with Other Applications 11. Extending Dynamics NAV 2016 12. The Future of NAV

Physical and logical databases


It is important as a consultant to understand how the database is actually created. From the system side, when you access the database, you generally see only the logical database. Say, you have a NAV database of size 500 GB. Now in reality, it might not be a single stack of 500 GB. This can be because of different factors. As the database size increases, we do not replace the whole hardware because doing that can be an expensive and time-consuming task. So we end up adding extra memory physical disks to get the required storage capacity.

The following diagram illustrates how the logical space can be realized by using totally different physical hardware memory disks. The physical disks can also be in different places yet supporting the same logical database system:

Besides this, there is logical structure inside the database as well. A logical divide means further categorization of the database so that we can place our record in a DB pattern. To achieve a logical...

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