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I had that before. In the beginning Mr. Scope Creep was more than happy to get 15000 more complex records in a download every day, as long as he really got them. Then 30000, better 50000. 100000 would be nice. Actually, some of our users may sometimes need 200000. In the end, when everything was online, we were at 2.5 millions. Twice, for different divisions of the company.

But I had seen that coming from the beginning and had built the program that prepared these downloads so that it would get only one record at a time and serialize it before moving on to the next. This way the number of records were irrelevant. It would just take a little longer than trying to get everything at once and have the server's memory hop out of its sockets somewhere between 10000 and 15000 records.

But of course it always was extremely hard to raise the bar once again (change a configuration variable) and squeeze the time and money for really important things out of Mr. Scope Creep. He even got a cool web page where every user could see how far the requested downloads were prepared and an estimate when they were going to be ready.
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