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Most of the corpus — FindSet/SetLoadFields/CalcFields patterns, permission sets, SingleInstance codeunits, DataClassification, IsolatedStorage, transaction scope, SecretText — describes BC platform behaviour that is identical across supported versions. The seed [26..28] range on every file implied a version-specificity the content does not actually have, and there was no way to express "applies to every version" in the schema the way [w1] and [all] already do for countries and application-area. Extend the v1 schema with a universal sentinel for bc-version, parallel to the sentinels already defined for the other dimensions: bc-version: [all] # applies to every BC version [all] is mutually exclusive with explicit versions. Range shorthand ([26..28]) and explicit lists ([26, 27, 28]) continue to work for files genuinely tied to a version-gated API or deprecation. Update read.md (field definition, matching semantics, partial-context rule), write.md (default to [all], use ranges only with a concrete reason), README.md (frontmatter example), and the CI validator. All forty existing knowledge files and the three action skills convert to [all]; none of the current content is version-gated. Validator passes.
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Only fetch records you use
Seed article. Converted from an existing performance-review prompt to bootstrap the BCQuality performance corpus. Domain stewards should expand, restructure, and refine as needed.
Description
CodeCop rule AA0175 flags code that retrieves a record and then does not use it. Every Find, FindSet, FindFirst, FindLast, or Get has a cost: the platform reads rows from SQL, materializes them, and transports them to the AL runtime. A call whose result is never read is wasted work, and on hot tables that work is never free.
Best Practice
Retrieve a record only when you need one or more of its field values. When you only need to know whether at least one row matches a filter, use IsEmpty (see use-isempty-for-existence-checks). When you only need a subset of fields, use SetLoadFields (see use-setloadfields-for-partial-records).
See sample: only-fetch-records-you-use.good.al.
Anti Pattern
Calling FindSet or Get and then ignoring the result, or using it only as a boolean existence test, performs the full fetch and throws the data away.
See sample: only-fetch-records-you-use.bad.al.