1. NAV/SQL Performance
Jörg Stryk
Vienna, Austria
9-11 October 2019

2. STRYK System Improvement Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
Welcome!
STRYK System Improvement
Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
Jörg A. Stryk
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3. NAV/SQL Performance for Dummies
In a Nutshell
General challenges & approaches
to exceed the limits
© STRYK System Improvement – Jörg A. Stryk

4. Warning! LEAVE NOW! This session is going to be Rude, insulting and
Slightly pornographic.
If you are easily offended
LEAVE NOW!

5. Jörg Stryk – If your NAV sucks, it wasn’t fixed by me!
MS Dynamics NAV (Navision) since 1997
Since version 1.2
MS SQL Server since Since version 2000
100% focus on NAV/SQL Performance Optimization STRYK System Improvement (since 2006) More than 500 projects in about 25 countries on 5 continents (Dec 2016) Worldwide support of MS Dynamics Partners & Customers
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (retired) MVP MS Dynamics NAV
Book: “NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide” ISBN
Software: “SSI Performance Toolbox”

6. LISTEN Up, MICROSOFT! I DON‘T GIVE A F*** ABOUT HOW YOU LABEL IT!
This PRODUCT IS CALLED NAVISION or NAV
I DON‘T GIVE A F*** ABOUT HOW YOU LABEL IT!

7. Sense and Relativity of Time

8. Sense and Relativity of Time

9. Everything 's Shit ! Nothing Works ! 80% Troubleshooting App Database
SQL Server
Infra.
Measure
Analyze
Decide
Implement
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams
App
Database
SQL Server
Infrastructure
Everything 's Shit !
Nothing Works !
80%

10. Query-Strategy & Indexing
Performance Areas
Platform & Hardware
Query-Strategy & Indexing
Blocks & Deadlocks

11. Query-Strategy & Indexing
Performance Areas
Blocks & Deadlocks
Query-Strategy & Indexing
Platform & Hardware

12. Requirements

13. Requirements for Requirements
Windows
Foundation
Essential
Standard
Enterprise
CPU
RAM
Server 2008
n/a 4
32 GB 8
1 TB
Server 2008 R2
2 TB
Server 2012 1
32GB 2
64 GB 64
4 TB
Server 2012 R2
Server 2016
Server 2019
SQL
Standard
Enterprise
CPU
RAM
Server 2008 4
max
Server 2008 R2
64 GB
Server 2012
4/16
Server 2014
128 GB
Server 2016
Max
Server 2017
Server 2019

14. Query-Strategy & Indexing
Performance Areas
Blocks & Deadlocks
Query-Strategy & Indexing
Platform & Hardware

15. Core Architecture
What you Want
What you Get

16. Data Retrieval

17. Query-Strategy & Indexing
Performance Areas
Blocks & Deadlocks
Query-Strategy & Indexing
Platform & Hardware

18. Blocking Probability

19. Query-Strategy & Indexing
Performance Areas
Platform & Hardware
Query-Strategy & Indexing
Blocks & Deadlocks

20. Tuning

21. „Pizza As A Service“ Analogy Decrease of Performance !
There is no Cloud ...
„Pizza As A Service“ Analogy
You Manage
Vendor Manages
On-Premise
Infrastructure
as a Service
(IaaS)
Platform
(PaaS)
Software
(SaaS)
Dining Table
Soda
Electric/Gas
Oven
Fire
Dough
Tomato Sauce
Toppings
Cheese
Increase of Service ?
Loss of Control !?
Decrease of Performance !
Made at Home
Take & Bake
Delivered
Dined Out

22. Tuning in ”The Cloud”

23. ”The Cloud” - What if ...?

24. Evolution? Not really ...

25. Yes, We Can! So far ...

26. DON‘T BE AN ASKHOLE To not embarrass the speaker
Annoying Questions & Stupid Answers
DON‘T BE AN ASKHOLE To not embarrass the speaker
please only ask questions
where the answer is either simple or obvious. Thanks a bunch!

27. STRYK System Improvement Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
Thank You!
STRYK System Improvement
Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
Jörg A. Stryk
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