# Switching Glide Big Table to Regular Table **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197 "2025-01-14T16:09:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chana\_Chanin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chana_chanin/32/22440_2.png) [@Chana\_Chanin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chana_Chanin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/1 "2025-01-14T16:09:14Z")
Somehow one of my main glide tables is a big table, but it has some limitations. Is there a way to switch it to regular table while maintaining user specific columns, and row IDSs? because so many things already depend on this ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/2 "2025-01-14T17:03:38Z")
I don’t think there is a way to convert it. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/3 "2025-01-14T17:11:21Z")
As Jeff says, there is no direct conversion. The best you can do is recreate the table as a regular table and then export/import the data. You can import the RowIDs, but you only get one shot at that. There is no way that I know of to import user specific values. ---
**Author:** ![Chana\_Chanin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chana_chanin/32/22440_2.png) [@Chana\_Chanin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chana_Chanin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/4 "2025-01-14T17:12:04Z")
bummer. thanks ---
**Author:** ![Chana\_Chanin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chana_chanin/32/22440_2.png) [@Chana\_Chanin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chana_Chanin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/5 "2025-01-16T02:32:49Z")
follow up question: I’m looking for a workaround so that I’ll be able to sort randomly although I’m using big tables. Any ideas? ---
**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:** [January 17, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/6 "2025-01-17T00:09:00Z")
Tried to think about it but there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way to me. Not sure if there are any ways to use a computed column as a sort, your closest option is Roll Dice. Or maybe just add a rowID column and sort by it, but it isn’t really random and you can’t re-generate it. ---
**Author:** ![Chana\_Chanin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chana_chanin/32/22440_2.png) [@Chana\_Chanin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chana_Chanin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/7 "2025-01-17T00:30:28Z")
Thanks so much for taking the time to think about this. I think I will just spend the time transferring my big tables to regular tables. Appreciate 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:** [January 24, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/8 "2025-01-24T00:31:18Z")
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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 5:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/9 "2026-01-12T05:21:55Z")
> [@Chana\_Chanin](#): > > sort randomly although I’m using big tables Looking to do the same thing…haven’t found a way yet. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/switching-glide-big-table-to-regular-table/79197/10 "2026-01-12T05:49:58Z")
Well…it isn’t exactly random, but I found that creating a math formula that uses some sort of unique value (like a timestamp) compared to how often you want the values randomized (let’s say daily) will give you somewhat unique values that you can use for sorting: ```auto mod( year(date) * 10000 + month(date) * 100 + day(date) + hour(date) / 10 + minute(date) / 1000 + second(date) / 100000 + day(now) * 1234.5678 ,1) ``` The mod formula should force the values to be different enough to appear random. ![CleanShot 2026-01-12 at 00.49.05](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/6/3/63aceb39751e6dfb41f25282cae6c0c9141677b3.jpeg)