How to manage and match large external lists without importing them all
Existing list-management tools lack integration with modern database platforms like NXT or Salesforce, forcing teams to manually match external records against database entries. Without a tool that can query, merge, or house millions of external records alongside the main CRM, bulk data cleanups and imports become slow and prone to duplicate creation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Searching for alternative third-party integrated solutions
- 2Developing custom workflows for handling large external lists
- 3Using alternative data loading tools that have a native find record function
- 4Performing an upsert using a specific field to match on instead of looking up IDs beforehand
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m trying to find an NXT-integrated solution that can provide similar functionality—particularly the ability to house and work with approximately 1 million records at a time without having to import all of those records into our NXT database.”source ↗
“Has anyone found a good alternative or developed a workflow for handling large external lists, matching/merging records, and managing this volume of data alongside NXT?”source ↗
Where this came up
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