What I understand as an architect is the 5000 limit is not for actual items but number of items you can fetch at one time which should not be more than 5000. We have quarter million records in a list and we can still edit the list without any issue as long as the view item limit is well below 5000. In our case the item limit in all views is just 50 so we are just bringing 50 items at a time. As per MS we can store 30 million records in a single sharepoint list and as long as we are not fetching 5000.
My question to MVP's or MSFT is why there are so many links warning about 5000 item limit.
Can somebody explain real meaning of list view threshold of 5000 item limit? Can we realistically store 1 million records in a single list and view the items with view item limit set to 100 per page?
Items | 30,000,000 per list | Supported | You can create very large lists using standard views, site hierarchies, and metadata navigation. This value may vary depending on the number of columns in the list and the usage of the list. |
List view threshold | 5,000 | Threshold | Specifies the maximum number of list or library items that a database operation, such as a query,can process at the same time outside the daily time window set by the administrator during which queries are unrestricted. |
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