Morning Gliders! I just started using Big Tables for some of my data and I can’t seem to figure out how to show data in the layout from a related table. Here’s the scenario: I have a table called Months Stats and in that table it relates to another table’s unique ID called Months. The relation wor…

[image] Darren_Murphy: I’m talking about the Gigs 3.1 Months table - the one that has/had only 12 rows. Darren, That table doesn’t have the user’s data. It’s a source table I’m using. The user’s data is in the Months Stat’s table. It still doesn’t explain how I could get those tables joined …

Yes, I understand that it doesn’t contain the users data, but that doesn’t change my suggestion. What I am suggesting is using that table as a helper table - it seems to me that this is a classic use case. Try it - add a query column to that table that matches rows in the Gigs 3.1 Data table using …

Sorry for reviving this thread, but I think I have a similar issue. I have used glide tables and related one table to another, pretty standard stuff. I tried to replace the relation with one to a big table, and all I get is Query in each row of the relation column and data no longer displays in th…

For example, I see this when I test: [Screenshot 2026-01-20 at 10.14.58] If I have 101 clients in a table A and a relation to a big table B, does this mean that I can only look up data from that relation for 100 of those rows in table A?

Geepers. If I try to select a lookup column from a relation to a big table in Layout and display it’s data, that column is not in the list of columns that I can select. Are Big Tables a completely different thing to Glide Tables and are they not intended to be used relations? I though they were Gl…

[image] blairrorani: I tried to replace the relation with one to a big table, and all I get is Query in each row of the relation column and data no longer displays in the computed columns based on the relation, e.g. roll up. This is normal. It’s because with Big Tables the data lives on the b…

If you look at the screenshot above, I had a relation from A to B (B is a big table, the column is a number). I’m referencing a number column, not a computed column. The warning message called this a roll up column. I selected multiple relation so maybe it treats it as a roll up. I’m basically try…

How is the relation formed? Is it matching non-computed columns in both tables, or are there computed columns involved? A lookup into a multiple relation will return an array, so it’s “kindof” a rollup, but I suspect that’s just a generic warning message that appears any time the 100 row limit appl…

Formed: a number column to a number column. Without multiple lookup there were no matching records. What else do I need to get used to vs. glide tables?

@Darren_Murphy do you know of a table or resource comparing glide tables to big tables? I’m pretty hand with glide tables and assumed big ones would be the same but with more rows. Now I get they are different, it would be great to have those difference summarised. This is different to the limitatio…

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nathanaelb January 21, 2026, 10:48pm 28

Maybe a useful read. I found myself in a similar situation you are in a few months ago. (And I’m still in it.)

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