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Time taken to delete records

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Hi Team,

Quick question, in a typical production solution, what would be the estimated time taken to delete 1 million basic activity records using a bulk delete job? No complex data on the activities, no attachments etc, just a few fields.

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  • James Mulvey Profile Picture
    James Mulvey 10 on at
    RE: Time taken to delete records

    Thank you everyone for your answers - In the end I just used the bulk delete tool anyway - I was deleting about 300k records per hour so the whole job took around 12 hours. Contacts were the only record type that took longer at around 75k per hours.

    Thanks again!

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    Pradeep Rai 5,490 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
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    Amit Katariya007 Profile Picture
    Amit Katariya007 5,801 Moderator on at
    RE: Time taken to delete records

    Create a flow and run it to delete thousands of records at a time. Whatever you do deletion job will take time. If needed then you can delete records manually by using workflow and run it for selected thousands of records as Leco suggested using xrmtool box.

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    Leco Lv Profile Picture
    Leco Lv on at
    RE: Time taken to delete records

    Hi partner,

    Bulk delete is not designed to be super-fast; it just works by design. Maybe this link will help you.

    community.dynamics.com/.../deleting-a-lot-of-records-fast

    gustafwesterlund.blogspot.com/.../deleting-lot-of-records-fast.html

    or you could use XrmToolBox tool Bulk Data Updater, see more info: https://jonasr.app/bdu/It can delete many records.

  • James Mulvey Profile Picture
    James Mulvey 10 on at
    RE: Time taken to delete records

    Really? I was expecting hours maybe but not days...are there any faster ways of doing it?

  • Guido Preite Profile Picture
    Guido Preite 54,061 Moderator on at
    RE: Time taken to delete records

    days

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