Clarification on What Counts as Updates in Glide (Bulk Row Deletion)

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Hello, I have a couple of questions about how Glide counts updates, and I’d really appreciate your help!

Context:
In my app, I’m syncing data from a connected Google Sheet. New data is added to the sheet daily, so over time, it’s grown quite large.

Q1:
The sheet currently contains more than 13,000 rows, but a lot of that is old data we no longer need. If I replace the entire sheet with only the 3,000 rows we actually need (essentially deleting 10,000 rows), will Glide count that as 10,000 updates?

Q2:
If I do the same deletion (removing 10,000 rows) before the app is published, will those deletions still count as updates?

Thanks in advance for any clarification!

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If you delete 10,000 rows at once, it will not be 10,000 updates. Glide does not count 1 update for each row you delete if you are deleting all rows at once. It may use a few updates but certainly not thousands.

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Must be noted what Hassan said applies to your Google Sheets case only, say if you do that with a delete row action in Glide, it will be 10k.

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Thank you, @Hassan_Nadeem & @ThinhDinh! Just to confirm my understanding:

  1. If I manually delete 10,000 rows directly in the Google Sheet, it would count as 1 update in Glide.
  2. If I delete those 10,000 rows using a Glide workflow with the Delete Row action, it would count as 10,000 updates.

Is that correct?

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If you delete them all at once, it will count as at most 2 updates. But if you delete them one by one it could potentially count as a lot more.

Correct.

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Alas, the holes get poked in the fabric of the comparing the two. Google sheets certainly has its place for data in a glide app for bulk updates that don’t require near instant updates being reflected in the app.

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Thank you all for your help!

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