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Marije Brummel
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Marije Brummel

Author, programmer, consultant, project manager, presenter, evangelist, sales person, and a trainer. It's next to impossible to find someone as experienced as Marije Brummel in the Business Central community. Marije received the Microsoft MVP and the NAVUG All-Star awards among several others. She has chaired the Dynamics Credentialing committee and has authored official Microsoft Exam materials. She's the go-to girl for performance troubleshooting and upgrade challenges. One of her biggest achievements was introducing Design Patterns into the Business Central community. Her books, blog articles, and YouTube videos have influenced almost everyone involved with Business Central. She enjoys the outdoors with her dog and loves spending time with her family.
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David Studebaker has been designing and developing software since 1962 as a developer, consultant, manager, and business owner. In 1967, David coauthored the first general-purpose SPOOL system, an AT&T / IBM joint project. He has been a founding partner in several firms, most recently Studebaker Technology and Liberty Grove Software. David's publications include a decade of technical reviews for ACM Computing Reviews and a number of articles on shop floor data collection. David originated the Packt series of books on programming Dynamics Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). He has a BS in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a life member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Chris Studebaker was a certified environmental consultant working with manufacturing facilities to meet national and state regulations before he started working with Navision in 1999. After working on regulatory reporting, data analysis, project management, and subcontractor oversight, Chris has used those skills to sell, develop, and implement NAV for the past 20 years. He has specialized in retail, manufacturing, job shop, and distribution implementations, mostly in high-user-count, high-data-volume applications. Chris acts in a consulting and training role for customers and for peer NAV professionals. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University and has done graduate work at Denmark Technical University.
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Secondary keys and SumIndexFields

The Playlist Line table's default primary key was Document No.. For the primary key to be unique for each record, another field is needed. For a Line table, the additional field is the Line No. field, which is incremented via AL code for each record. So, we'll change the key for table 50003 accordingly:

We know that a lot of reporting will be done based on the data in Radio Show Ledger. We also know that we want to do reporting on data by Radio Show and by the type of entry (individual song, specific advertisement, and so on). So, we will add secondary keys for each of those, including a Date field so that we can rapidly filter the data by Date. The reporting that is financial in nature will need totals of the Fee Amount field, so we'll put that in the SumIndexFields column for our new keys:

We know that to do the necessary listenership analysis, the listenership ledger needs an additional key, combined with SumIndexFields for...

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Marije Brummel

Author, programmer, consultant, project manager, presenter, evangelist, sales person, and a trainer. It's next to impossible to find someone as experienced as Marije Brummel in the Business Central community. Marije received the Microsoft MVP and the NAVUG All-Star awards among several others. She has chaired the Dynamics Credentialing committee and has authored official Microsoft Exam materials. She's the go-to girl for performance troubleshooting and upgrade challenges. One of her biggest achievements was introducing Design Patterns into the Business Central community. Her books, blog articles, and YouTube videos have influenced almost everyone involved with Business Central. She enjoys the outdoors with her dog and loves spending time with her family.
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David Studebaker

David Studebaker has been designing and developing software since 1962 as a developer, consultant, manager, and business owner. In 1967, David coauthored the first general-purpose SPOOL system, an AT&T / IBM joint project. He has been a founding partner in several firms, most recently Studebaker Technology and Liberty Grove Software. David's publications include a decade of technical reviews for ACM Computing Reviews and a number of articles on shop floor data collection. David originated the Packt series of books on programming Dynamics Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). He has a BS in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a life member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Christopher D. Studebaker

Chris Studebaker was a certified environmental consultant working with manufacturing facilities to meet national and state regulations before he started working with Navision in 1999. After working on regulatory reporting, data analysis, project management, and subcontractor oversight, Chris has used those skills to sell, develop, and implement NAV for the past 20 years. He has specialized in retail, manufacturing, job shop, and distribution implementations, mostly in high-user-count, high-data-volume applications. Chris acts in a consulting and training role for customers and for peer NAV professionals. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University and has done graduate work at Denmark Technical University.
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