Key to Good Code

Recently, one particular piece of code in Business Central's codeunit 1501 Workflow Management once again revived the old discussion about the benefits of calling IsEmpty before actually retrieving the records with FindSet . Yes, that inexhaustible if not IsEmpty then FindSet . I already wrote about this a few times here and here . But this time the combination of IsEmpty with FindSet appeared to be a good pretext to talk about index efficiency: when a seemingly good index

Introduction of the SetLoadFields function in AL language that allowed to limit the number of fields returned to the Business Central...

Since the time when I came across this post by Waldo (or actually, he mentioned his test results in one online discussion) I was curious...

Back in the old Navision days, when clients' data were stored in the Navision native database instead of Azure SQL Server, and functions...