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Safest Pagination Threshold Limit

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Is there a safest threshold limit that I can use for a scheduled and manually triggered flows? For example, if I have more than 100,000 items that I need to process in one SP list/table alone, I can set my pagination to the maximum threshold limit of 100,000, as per my online research.  Will there be an impact to the succeeding flows that will be running if I set the pagination to a 100,000 limit? Will it cause long-running flows? 
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,960 Moderator on at
    Hi,
     
    There is no different if you break it down into smaller chunks, "per se". If you are triggering this flow 10000 times it isn't going to matter if you do 2k chunks or 45 at a time, it won't work.
     
    You should make sure this flow has Concurrence turned on for the trigger and set to 1, so no more than 1 copy at a time can be running.
     
    It's also impossible to tell you what impact. If you are a customer that has 3 flows, this is one and the others fire 1 time every 10 years.. is not the same as finding out someone has 10 of these types of flows and 300 others all working at the same time.
     
    There is no "safe" threshold for pagination as it relates to performance. it takes understanding the entire environment ecosystem.
     
    For me I do not like to do 100K at a time. I want to get as many done in smaller batches 10-20K so that I can more readily see and gauge performance and timing.
     
    I would make it configurable as an Environment Variable. then run some tests for yourself. This way you can test, without redeploying each time you change the pagination size.
     
  • power01 Profile Picture
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    Thanks for the helpful answer! I have another question: is there a way to identify which ID has the highest number of rows in a specific table or list? For example, if I need to process a batch of 100 IDs, and the table contains an 'ID' column with duplicate rows/values, it would be helpful to know which ID has the highest row count. For instance, ID 1A might have 100 rows, ID 1B might have 50 rows, and ID 1C might have 80 rows, and so on. Knowing this would be useful because if the pagination limit isn’t set correctly, there’s a risk that some rows might not be processed in the next run.
  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,598 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    If you have that many items in your SharePoint List you should start asking yourself if maybe a SQL Server database (or similar) would be a better option.

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