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GlenTurnbull
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Intermittent Inventory On Hand Performance Issues 

A few customers have reported intermittent performance issues involving inventory on hand related queries on the InventSum, InventDim and/or WHSInventReserve tables, due to bad query plans regarding the table joins. This not only applies to on hand inquiries necessarily, but anything else dependent on it, e.g. inventory related posting processes, e.g. purchase invoicing.
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Dynamics AX Table Caching: Basic Rules 

This post provides some basic general guidance to get you started on setting table caching for custom tables, bearing in mind there will be exceptions. This should generally be defined at design time to avoid costly round trips to the database.
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Collect a series of traces automatically with Dynamics AX 2012 

Introduction The following steps are one way to collect a series of AX traces on a schedule with all versions of AX 2012 on the AOS server, using standard Windows tools: Perfmon combined with Task Scheduler. This example collects a 1 minute trace at 5 minute intervals.
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Managing general performance issues in Microsoft Dynamics AX 

Updated on 09/09/16 for DynamicsPerf v2.0. Intended for versions up to AX 2012. This post is primarily aimed at non technical readers and those responsible for coordinating or managing these issues, but with links drilling through to more in depth blogs containing further details.