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Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

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Posted on by Jim Lines 2

Greetings!
In my GP career, I've run Checklinks a million times and have never had an instance where it took more than 8 hours on a given module (usually Inventory, of course!).  This weekend, our accounting department started processing their YE close and kicked off the Financial Checklinks (about 3M+ records) which it's still running.  It's going on about 48 hours of processing as of this post.  All weekend there were no users on GP nor on the terminal server clients (with the exception of the user processing).  I've checked the activity monitor in SQL and confirmed the CL process is running.  So I don't believe anything would have been interfering with the processes (but I could be wrong).

I'm not looking for a solution, per se, just curious if anyone has experienced the process taking this long.  What about archiving data?  I've not done this before, but would be curious if any of you have and what your experience has been. 

Thanks in advance!

Jim

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  • Mahmoud Saadi Profile Picture
    Mahmoud Saadi 32,738 on at
    RE: Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

    I do agree with Steve, the answer is relatively related to which tables you are including. Additionally, it could definitely take a huge time when a huge amount of data is included.

  • Bill Campbell Profile Picture
    Bill Campbell 22,647 on at
    RE: Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

    Hey Jim, it is going on 5:00 Tuesday - what solution to your original question.

    How long did the CL take?  Did you finally and successful conclude the process?

    Just asking for information.

  • Jim Lines Profile Picture
    Jim Lines 2 on at
    RE: Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

    Steve,

    Thanks!  This is (somewhat) reassuring.  I appreciate your feedback!

    Jim

  • Heather Roggeveen Profile Picture
    Heather Roggeveen 9,142 on at
    RE: Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

    Archiving - highly recommend Company Data Archive from Professional Advantage.

  • steveendow Profile Picture
    steveendow 2,281 on at
    RE: Running Checklinks on Finance Module - How Long is Too Long

    Hi Jim,

    I believe it will vary significantly depending on which Check Links is run.

    I had a client with a relatively large database (don't remember the size) who attempted to run the Multi-Currency check links after a GP license upgrade caused some problems.  The MC Check Links ran for days. After 5 days they eventually killed the process (after getting the OK from Microsoft) and decided to never run MC check links again.

    That client did eventually implement GP Archive by Professional Advantage, but I don't think they ever tried Check Links again.

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