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Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV

by Alex Chow, Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Vjekoslav Babić, David Roys, David Studebaker, Christopher Studebaker, Mark Brummel
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1235 pages
28h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Master Data Pattern

The EARP systems are designed to deal with people and things. These people can be customers, vendors, or employees. The things can be the G/L Accounts, Items, Fixed Assets, or Loaners.

We will refer to people as the Person Master Data, and to Things as the Product Master Data.

Technical description

The Master Data tables have a single Primary Key of the Code length as 20. This code field is typically and automatically determined using the Number Series Pattern, although this is optional. To have a more humanly readable way to find records in the table, each Master Data has two text-fields of length 50, and a code-field of length 50.

Note

The Number Series Pattern will be discussed in Chapter 3, Design Patterns.

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ISBN: 9781788298704