Best Approach to Export Large Data Volumes

Tejas Adhalrao
Kilo Sage

Hi Everyone,

I have a table containing around 300,000–400,000 records. When exporting to Excel, there is a limit of 10,000 records per export.

I need to export all records, but increasing the export limit may impact system performance and slow down the instance.

One approach I am considering is exporting 10,000 records at a time. However, I am not sure how to track which 10,000 records were already exported so that the next export contains the following 10,000 records without any duplicates or missing records.

Has anyone implemented a solution for this requirement? What would be the best approach to export large volumes of records in batches while ensuring each export contains the next set of records?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

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Dr Atul G- LNG
Tera Patron

Hi @Tejas Adhalrao 

 

Short-term solution:

Change the export/import property limit and then download the data. However, this activity should be performed during off-peak hours to minimize any potential impact on other users and system performance.

 

 

https://devxxxxx.service-now.com/now/nav/ui/classic/params/target/%24impex_properties.do

 

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yashkamde
Mega Sage

Hello @Tejas Adhalrao ,
Navigate on List Layout set the filter you want and above in the url append this line at the LAST :

 

https://devxxxxxx.service-now.com/now/nav/ui/classic/params/target/incident_list.do%3Fsysparm_query%...&CSV&sysparm_default_export_fields_all=true

&CSV&sysparm_default_export_fields_all=true

 

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as far as I know this exports records upto 1 lakh at a time.

 

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