# Clarification on What Counts as Updates in Glide (Bulk Row Deletion) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 13, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319 "2025-04-13T23:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smallpond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/smallpond/32/61256_2.png) [@smallpond](https://community.glideapps.com/u/smallpond)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/1 "2025-04-13T23:29:30Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Hassan\_Nadeem](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/hassan_nadeem/32/72956_2.png) [@Hassan\_Nadeem](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hassan_Nadeem)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/2 "2025-04-13T23:54:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/3 "2025-04-14T00:39:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![smallpond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/smallpond/32/61256_2.png) [@smallpond](https://community.glideapps.com/u/smallpond)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/4 "2025-04-14T14:01:24Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/5 "2025-04-14T14:04:13Z")
> [@smallpond](#): > > If I manually delete 10,000 rows directly in the Google Sheet, it would count as **1 update** in Glide. 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. > [@smallpond](#): > > If I delete those 10,000 rows using a Glide **workflow with the Delete Row action** , it would count as **10,000 updates**. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Myles\_Chaput](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/myles_chaput/32/62176_2.png) [@Myles\_Chaput](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Myles_Chaput)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/6 "2025-04-14T21:46:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![smallpond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/smallpond/32/61256_2.png) [@smallpond](https://community.glideapps.com/u/smallpond)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/7 "2025-04-16T15:57:27Z")
Thank you all for your help! ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/clarification-on-what-counts-as-updates-in-glide-bulk-row-deletion/81319/8 "2025-04-23T15:57:48Z")
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