NetSuite Admin Tips | Limiting the Number of Results Using SuiteQL

In today’s data-driven business environment, managing and processing large datasets efficiently is crucial for making informed decisions. Whether you're working with databases, APIs, or enterprise applications, controlling the number of results returned by your queries or searches is essential to ensure both performance optimization and improved user experience.

When working with SuiteQL to explore and retrieve data from NetSuite, it's often necessary to limit the number of rows returned by your query to improve performance or focus on specific results. A simple and effective way to achieve this is by using the RowNum function.

For example, if you're querying the Transaction table and only want to return the first 10 records, you can construct your query as follows: