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ODATA handling of more than 10000 records: nextLink?

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Posted on by Basti Aurand

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Hello,

we are facing the /known ODATA problem/ when working with more than 10000 records. What is the best way to handle those issues?

I read something about a nextLink keyword in ODATA but found nothing or no example for D365FO. I know that you could work with $skip $top to get the records in smaller packages, but this is quite a bit more of work than nextLink.

Thanks for any hints.

Sebastian

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Anthony Blake 3,162 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Consider Data Lake or Synapse Link if you are going over 10,000 on OData queries.

OData.NextLink: https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=02d3d0cb-33ef-4e25-bcc8-cbc9125e71a6

$Top + $Skip: https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=c22b0bcf-014d-402f-817e-5aed4f756be1#:~:text=Introduction%3A,10K%20records%20at%20a%20time.

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Thanks for the repsonse.

In the "Odata.NextLink" post the logic is described but unfortunatly there is no link in the ODATA response if you reduce the size with $top:

How could you reduce the size of the response and get the "getNext-Link" in the JSON response?

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That's correct, if you reduce the size to 100 rows, there wont be a next page so no next link. You will get the link if the results go over 10k rows

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Is there any chance to configure the size of the packages (e.g.: 5000 instead of 10000)

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Hy,

as per MS recommdation ODATA is only recommended for small data volume and less frequent actions as it can negative impact D365FO landscape.

Instead I recommend to create use data package and execute the data project from external (Data management package REST API - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn)

If is is just export the "Export to DataLake" (already depreciated) or Synapse Link are also good choices as mentioned by Anthony.

Hope this helps.

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Anthony Blake 3,162 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@sebastian, no its at 10k, but you could use $top 5000 with $skip 5000

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