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How to import 2 lakh records via excel in business central

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Hello Everyone, I tried pushing two hundred thousand records into business central(200000) , it doesn't allow me , is there a limit ??

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    How are you attempting it

    with  xmlport or Code written in a report to read this much records from excel or using a Configuration package?..

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    1,638 on at

    configuration packages

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    Please post screen shot of error

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    it may take some time but this much we have imported.

    if on-premise then check with an increase in SQL timeout.

    On Cloud, did not find any issue it took around an hour to import and then to apply data.

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    I don't think there is a limitation on configuration package. It's just that it will take a very long time to do it.

    Configuration package is not a good way to import big data. Consider creating an xmlport. It is way faster.

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    I second Teddy Herryanto. Its very time consuming and its extremely frustrating when you get errors after import of tens of hours. XML ports is extremely fast. It imports within minutes and directly to actual table.

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