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Dynamics AX – Periodic maintenance and performance analysis

1 Periodic clean up - Significance A recent AX_Database analysis showed that the 5 largest tables in the database account for roughly 60% of the database size. The 4 largest tables out of 5 are tables with temporary and/or archival data: Inventory settlements (INVENTSETTLEMENT), database log (SYSDATABASELOG), temporary sales orders data (SALESPARMLINE), temporary master planning data (INVENTSUMLOGTTS). The fifth table is sales lines (SALESLINE). Periodically archiving/purging these tables would significantly reduce database size and will have beneficial effect on system performance . Each individual table and related considerations are discussed below: 1.1   Inventory settlements . The inventory settlements table is used to store information generated during inventory close and adjust periodic job run. This table can be cleaned up/compressed using the Inventory management>Periodic>Clean up>Inventory settlements clean up. Deleting cancelled settlement is a r...