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How to Boost Dynamics NAV SQL Server Performance.

Practical techniques to improve Dynamics NAV SQL Server performance. Covers indexing, query optimization, and SQL Perform tools for immediate results.

Floyd Chan2 min readMigration & Upgrades
Dynamics NAV Users: Get a solid performance boost of your SQL Server immediately

The amount of data required to do business today can be overwhelming. From the information you need every single day to the material you're required to keep on file for compliance purposes, the sheer size of your database could be seriously impacting your daily performance and tasks. Fortunately, there's finally a solution: Archiving and Compression Tools from SQL Perform.

Designed specifically for Dynamics NAV customers, these innovative applications allow you to retain the detailed data you need to move your company forward while still offering a very real performance boost that you'll notice immediately. The result is data visibility along with faster drill downs, faster reports, faster processing, faster backups, and faster maintenance. That level of speed could mean real changes for your company.

These tools are carefully customized to meet the needs of your company and with ongoing enhancements. you can be certain you will continually reduce the size of your data footprint without limiting your functionality.

Fix the problem for good

As long as you were running the Enterprise Edition of SQL, you could employ the data compression tool, but it's only going to help you deal with the disks and RAM problems, not the physical heaviness of the data itself. You could scale up your machine, but that's cost prohibitive in many situations. You could also re-implement a new NAV database, but that's nothing short of risky, and it's certain to mean downtime you don't need right now.

How much data did your company create today? How much will you create tomorrow? How much more can your system hold? Whether you're keeping it on hand for day to day operations or it's required from a compliance standpoint, that level of information can create an immeasurable drag on your systems.

What Can Archiving and Compression do for me?

  • Meet fiscal and legal requirements by retaining detailed data for inspections or audits and by cleverly maintaining statutory data retention period requirements. The data is kept, but it doesn't affect your operational database.
  • View historic data easily in archive database.
  • If there's ever a problem, simply reverse to the original state.
  • Require less RAM and CPU power on a daily basis, and minimize the need for SQL server data compression.

SQL Perform's Archiving and Compression Tools are customized to meet your needs, you get the reduced size without functionality issues at a reasonable cost. To learn more about how these tools work download the webinar HERE or contact us to get an analysis of your current system.

About the Author

Floyd Chan

Floyd Chan

President & Founder, Qixas Group

Floyd founded Qixas in 2007 after years of watching ERP projects fail for the same preventable reasons — junior staffing, slipping timelines, ballooning budgets. A Microsoft MVP and winner of the 2018 Directions Excellence Award, he is known across the Dynamics community as “the NAV genius.” He has been involved in more than 400 implementations and still reviews the hard ones personally.

  • Microsoft MVP
  • Dynamics NAV & Business Central
  • ERP Upgrades
  • Project Rescue

Frequently asked questions

Why is my Dynamics NAV system slow?

Usually database size. Years of retained transactional and compliance data drag on drill-downs, reports, posting, backups, and maintenance windows, regardless of how well the queries are written.

Does SQL Server data compression fix NAV performance?

Only partly. Compression relieves disk and RAM pressure but does not reduce the physical weight of the data your queries traverse, so the underlying drag remains.

What does archiving do that compression does not?

Archiving moves historical detail into a separate archive database. The records stay available for audits and statutory retention periods, but they stop loading the operational database that daily work runs against.

Is archiving reversible?

Yes. If there is ever a problem you can reverse to the original state, which is what makes archiving lower-risk than re-implementing the NAV database.

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