Ok… So bear with me here… I am going a bit philosophical.

How many of you were around when Navision released the SQL Server option?

I started with Navision in 1997 and if I am not mistaken (I might be) the SQL Server option came in 2002.

The first versions of SQL Server were absolutely horrible. Awful. And in the beginning the only “fix” was to move back to the Native database which remained to be faster until only a short while ago. I actually wonder if it would not still be faster if Navision would have invested in it.

Navision was designed for it’s own, native, proprietary database. Imagine a Navision database hosted serverless in Azure. Who would care, we don’t have SQL Server access anyway to let’s be honest, why do we actually run on SQL?

Anyway… that is not what this post is about.

In 2002 (again, I can be wrong about the year) the internet belonged to the nerds. LinkedIn had yet to be founded and Google had just surpassed AltaVista as most popular search engine.

The first SQL Server versions where an epic fail, but nobody noticed because social media was not as strong as it is today.

Let’s briefly pause in 2006.

I got my first MVP award from Microsoft in April 2006. Back then there were less than 10 MVP’s for Navision and literally nobody had a clue what it meant, what it was, who ran the program… etcetera.

In 2006 Directions North America just had it’s first or second event and in EMEA the whole concept of getting together and sharing was non-existing. In North America Directions was started because partners where afraid Microsoft would discontinue Navision in favor of Great Plains.

If your career in Business Central started after 2020 you will probably have no clue what I am talking about or where I am headed with this post.

Now let’s move to 2026

When I open LinkedIn… I get nuts… I scroll down for maybe 60 seconds and if your content did not show up, most likely I will never see it.

All the content looks the same, and everything is about AI.

Don’t get me wrong… I love AI and use it on a daily bases but I am so glad that I am not a developer anymore. I have not written any production code since I left ForNAV in 2001.

So if the SQL Server option would be released TODAY, in 2026 it would be shared by over 100 people. Most of them are MVP… I lost count.

Essentially it’s not wrong to share… and to be enthusiastic. But in the case of The SQL Server option it would be an unfair level of enthusiasm. Navision for sure would have had a very hard time with the negative publicity if this would have happened.

In short… there is (way too much) content… impossible for any human being to read and to follow… and in case of AI… it’s great, it will be the future, but we are not there yet… not even close.

A grain of salt is the understatement of the century.

We are at a point where posting anything on social media has become a waste of time. Unique content no longer exists. And being an MVP is not exactly special anymore. Well, it is… but not in the way it was around 2006-2017. Wow… those times.

Lastly… (yes I still read stuff) I bumped into the BCQuality (https://github.com/microsoft/bcquality). I was shocked! The design patterns and anti patterns on that repository are in such a degree the same as they were 10 years ago… its astonishing how slow we learn compared to the time we spend writing online content and AI tooling.