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Hello all,

I am running a report that returns over 61,000 rows. Since it is starting to get to Excel's limit, I am changing the output to HTML. However, when I run, it only displays 14 lines before it breaks. I have no breaks in my report. I want it to all run together with just a report heading (and would prefer if the column titles didn't repeat.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,

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Try
SET LINES=999999


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Excel's row limit is much higher than that (somewhere around a couple million rows) so it shouldn't even be an issue. Returning that many records to a browser is going to be an issue as well. Unless you have some huge amount of memory, it's going to take a long time to download and may cause your system to slow because of the amount of memory the browser will use. You might want to look into the WEBVIEWER functionality if you go the HTML route.


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This previous post has some excellent ideas to automatically go into a new excel tab when ever the row limit reaches the 64k limit.

Remember, the 64k limit is PER TAB, not for the entire spreadsheet.

 
http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/1521088292 
 

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in html, SET LINES = 998 is the max
above that, and the concept breaks down, and goes backto the default, which is something like 60...
why..nobody knows.
it just does
zut alors.
If you SET STYLEMODE = PAGED
you'll have some interesting results in html, might work for you.

When you say 'it breaks', do you mean it busts or it page-breaks?
remember, page breaks count heading and footing lines as well,




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Susanah: "and goes backto the default, which is something like 60... why..nobody knows. it just does". I know why... Remember the Old Green Bar Days? There were 66 lines per page. The "normal" page kept 3 lines for top and bottom "margins"... Now, I know that that dates me a bit... But: Those Were the Days My friend...

Just some "food for thought" about the limits of Excel:
1) The "old" 64k (65,536) and the "new" somewhere around a couple million rows.
2) A counter can be setup to be incremented every 64k records and it can be used as a primary sort field for bursting the output into separate tabs. Of course this eliminates a proper sorting within Excel as the sort will not span tabs.
3) The "somewhere around a couple million rows" came into effect with Excel 2007, right? So, it depends what version of Excel the end-user has.
4) The number of lines, &LINES, could be checked to, conditionally change the output from Excel to HTML or a file which can be imported into something like MS Access. I did this a while ago and they thought it was Great!

I hope this helps
 
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the question isn't why does it revert to 60...
the question is why does it revert AT ALL when lines > 998




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Why would anyone want to receive a HTML page with over 61000 rows? Maybe it's time to review the purpose of this report.


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