rows limit in excel

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rows limit in excel

Rakesh Kumar 20

I am transferring data from an on-premises database to a data lake in CSV format. When I attempt to open the CSV file in Excel, I encounter a row limit of approximately 1 million rows, while the source database contains over 4 million rows. What is the recommended approach to handle this situation?

Nandan Hegde 36,146 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2023-12-27T07:33:45.3+00:00

Hey,

Can you provide some more details w.r.t your query?

What exactly are are trying to achieve by opening the CSV file in excel? is to for manual file data analysis?
Rakesh Kumar 20 Reputation points

2023-12-27T07:35:54.9166667+00:00

yes, this is for manual file data analysis.
Viorel 122.5K Reputation points

2023-12-27T09:01:58.4133333+00:00
Check the official recommendations too:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-to-do-if-a-data-set-is-too-large-for-the-excel-grid-976e6a34-9756-48f4-828c-ca80b3d0e15c
AnnuKumari-MSFT 34,556 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-12-28T05:08:02.8033333+00:00

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Nandan Hegde 36,146 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2023-12-27T07:33:45.3+00:00

Hey,

Can you provide some more details w.r.t your query?

What exactly are are trying to achieve by opening the CSV file in excel? is to for manual file data analysis?
Rakesh Kumar 20 Reputation points

2023-12-27T07:35:54.9166667+00:00

yes, this is for manual file data analysis.
Viorel 122.5K Reputation points

2023-12-27T09:01:58.4133333+00:00

Check the official recommendations too:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-to-do-if-a-data-set-is-too-large-for-the-excel-grid-976e6a34-9756-48f4-828c-ca80b3d0e15c
AnnuKumari-MSFT 34,556 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-12-28T05:08:02.8033333+00:00

Hi Rakesh Kumar ,

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Answer 1

Nandan Hegde 36,146 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hey,

this is a limitation on Excel

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3

So you can either open the CSV file as txt file or load data into SQL or use synapse serverless to query the CSV file data from database or use databrick notebooks etc

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Hi,

The maximum number of rows and columns on a worksheet in Excel is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. You cannot increase the rows and columns in Excel. In my opinion you should change the application to help you analysis the data in .csv file.

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Olaf Helper 47,436

When I attempt to open the CSV file in Excel, I encounter a row limit of approximately 1 million rows

1 Mio is the limit of Excel.

What is the recommended approach to handle this situation?

Not opening a CSV file in Excel, that will cause always issue. CSV is a text file so use a text editor if you want to view the file content.

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