Recently I did a rather large migration job - moving tens of thousands of rows from a regular Glide Table to a Big Table. As well as moving the data, there were hundreds of column references, actions, screens and components that needed reconfiguring. Below are some of the lessons I learned along th…

Bookmarked. This kind of sounds like a nightmare. If ever I find myself in this situation, which I both hope and dread for different reasons, then I think I might have to try to bribe you. The client would foot the bill of course :yum:

It was quite tedious. The nice thing is the end result was a huge performance boost for the App, both in the player and the builder. It was almost unusable in the builder beforehand.

[image] Darren_Murphy: It was almost unusable in the builder beforehand. Glide engineers are keeping an eye on you. “Okay guys, we need to scale our virtual machines, it’s Darren again with another one of his monster apps.”

I’ve run into my first (probably not the last) substantial roadblock toward converting to Big Tables - a relation pointed to a split text column. [image] Items IDs are stored as a CSV in the Trips table, generated from a multi-select choice component. I’m currently doing rollups on this relation a…

I’d be interested in hearing more about any and all workarounds you have employed for Big Table limitations. The structure of the app I’m attempting to convert is not even close to workable within the allowed columns. Also, the video in this post won’t play for me and I’m keen to learn about this ap…

Would you be able to fix this video, too? I need to remember what I did with those Row ID columns! [image] Imported Row ID not recognized as Row ID Ask for Help So that’s your resulting table and neither of those Row ID columns are the one you were trying to import? Here…

Well your link returns a 404 error. Maybe the video was deleted somehow?

A big table migration tool/feature seems like it will become a must. Also matching all the column types of normal glide tables.

Migrating from Regular to Big Tables - some tips & advice

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Curtis August 20, 2024, 3:31pm 13

Yes looks like the Glide team are considering it

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