Fixing Workflow Slowness, Keep on Spinning

Question

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine created a workflow and while it is working, I noticed some problems. Like when I try to save it, it takes time to finish saving it. It keeps on spinning and spinning, it take hours before it is done. When I would like to open the email tool, again spinning and eats a lot of time. May I know what solution I can do to improve its performance. Other workflow works good. Only this workflow has problem especially when saving. I've tried copy and paste and save it to a new filename but sadly it doesn't fix the issue.

Please advise on how I can solve this issue.

Thanks,

Kamen

ddiesel · Answer

Hi @KamenRider!

It may have something to do with your inputs. Are any of those database connections? Are you working on a slow internet connection?

I work with one database that makes my workflow painfully slow to edit. To get around it, I put the offending input into a container and disable it temporarily while I make edits to the workflow. I have a sample extract of the data to connect to do any testing.

Hope this helps!

Deb

IraWatt · Answer

It looks like the output data tool is talking the most time, what are you outputting too and what is the size of the data? @KamenRider you could try outputting to yxdb (Alteryx's standard data format) that may speed things up.

KamenRider · Answer

Hi @IraWatt

Here;s the results. Would you know the problems and how to fix it. It really eats time when saving.

Hoping for your response.

Thanks,

Kamen

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