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Posted on by Symira 156

Hi,

Has anyone found the reason why the foreach loop in Power Automate Flows is so slow? Has any one found a way to speed it up? It is quite a pain!!!

 

Thanks

-S

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  • VictorIvanidze Profile Picture
    VictorIvanidze 13,079 on at

    Well, you know, any Power Automate action is quite slow.

    It might be you do not need to use "For each" at all. Could you show your flow?

  • Symira Profile Picture
    Symira 156 on at

    Hi @VictorIvanidze 

    Thanks for your reply.

    There are a lot of flows, which I have to use for continuous dataintegration from external databases (SQL etc.), where I query rowsets from the source and loop over them to update records in most cases in Dataverse tables. A simple and straightforward use case but so slow...

    -S

  • VictorIvanidze Profile Picture
    VictorIvanidze 13,079 on at

    Have a look at this example: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Flows/Slow-running-of-Apply-to-each-only-joining-data/m-p/1560477#M30388

  • Symira Profile Picture
    Symira 156 on at

    Hi @VictorIvanidze 

    Thanks. This is indeed a tempting idea. But, but looks like I am not getting something.

     

    • Let's say I have a table in SQL with 5 rows, which reflects 5 rows in a Dataverse table (including id)
    • Assume that the field "Year valid till" in the dataverse table is empty or not valid any more and needs to be updated

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    I create a flow, and SQL action to list rows.

     

    Now you mean I can update the Dataverse rows without a loop? That would be amazinig!!!

     

    Eager to read your views.

     

    Thanks

    -S

     

     

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