# Big Tables shared between apps - Google Sheets as an alternative **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [August 20, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929 "2025-08-20T08:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kit/32/73882_2.png) [@kit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/1 "2025-08-20T08:35:22Z")
Hi folks, We’ve been working with Glide to automate our internal processes for the last few months. A couple of elements use Big Tables - hour logging and ticket updates. When we started to work on a client-facing app, we discovered that these can’t be linked across apps like standard Glide Tables. We’re exploring the option of transferring the data to Google Sheets - which has a 5 million row limit rather than Glide Tables’ 25k limit - but I’m concerned about potential performance limitations. Has anyone here tried to run a large database like this from Google Sheets? We’re logging about a thousand rows per month on ticket updates at present, so this will build up pretty quickly. An alternative that occurred was to use the API to request data from these tables in the client app via a webhook, which might be more efficient, but will definitely be slower to build. Again, it’d be great to hear from anyone in the community with experience of this. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/2 "2025-08-20T10:57:13Z")
> [@kit](#): > > We’re exploring the option of transferring the data to Google Sheets - which has a 5 million row limit rather than Glide Tables’ 25k limit - but I’m concerned about potential performance limitations. Glide still limits Google sheets rows to 25k. So it won’t be better. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/3 "2025-08-20T10:59:37Z")
Just to understand, you are using Glide apps only or you have an external app? ---
**Author:** ![kit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kit/32/73882_2.png) [@kit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/4 "2025-08-20T11:08:15Z")
Hi Maxime. I’m using Glide apps only. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/5 "2025-08-20T11:37:12Z")
How many rows would you really need? ---
**Author:** ![kit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kit/32/73882_2.png) [@kit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/6 "2025-08-20T12:14:14Z")
Well - on ticket updates, we’re going through around 500 rows per month but this is likely to rise as adoption of the system increases. We could do a data clean-up every two years, I suppose. For hour logging, we typically log around 60-90 entries a day, so perhaps 1,500 per month; this is likely to fill up pretty quickly on a standard table. Thanks again for your assistance on this, by the way - it’s appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Lewis\_Parker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lewis_parker/32/91147_2.png) [@Lewis\_Parker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lewis_Parker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/7 "2025-08-20T12:19:11Z")
Am i missing something here? I have big tables linked between my glide apps just fine? is it the computed columns you mean that do not get linked? ---
**Author:** ![kit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kit/32/73882_2.png) [@kit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/8 "2025-08-20T12:45:53Z")
You do? I don’t: they don’t show up in the ‘Link Tables’ menu at all. Although, strangely, the Worklog Run Log and Worklog Step Logs do show up from the original app, along with another big table from a test app. So maybe I’m missing something here! Thanks for the heads-up, Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Lewis\_Parker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/lewis_parker/32/91147_2.png) [@Lewis\_Parker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Lewis_Parker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/9 "2025-08-20T12:47:39Z")
For me i click link glide tables and both Big tables and standard glide tables show ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/e/ce5eca015d31d4b765cd0de8b0ad03e5b7569b7f.png) with the big tables having the database icon and standard tables having the glide logo ---
**Author:** ![kit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kit/32/73882_2.png) [@kit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/10 "2025-08-20T12:53:55Z")
Solved! It wasn’t a bug, just something I overlooked from my end…Thanks to both of you for your feedback. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/11 "2025-08-22T12:01:22Z")
Anytime! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/big-tables-shared-between-apps-google-sheets-as-an-alternative/83929/12 "2025-08-29T12:02:15Z")
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