# Elasticsearch SQL retrieve more than 1000

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-sql-retrieve-more-than-1000/250614>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-sql\
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-sql-retrieve-more-than-1000/250614 "2020-10-01T07:34:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ananya\_ramesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ananya_ramesh/32/76505_2.png) [@ananya\_ramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ananya_ramesh)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-sql-retrieve-more-than-1000/250614/1 "2020-10-01T07:34:12Z")

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Implementing SQL query in Elasticsearch, not able to extract records more than 1000 in spite of LIMIT \> 1000. Tried **"index.mapping.total\_fields.limit": 5000** , but did not help.

```auto
POST _sql?format=txt
{
  "query": "SELECT column1 FROM table LIMIT 5000"
}

```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-sql-retrieve-more-than-1000/250614/2 "2020-10-02T09:38:02Z")

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Welcome!

This setting

```auto
index.mapping.total_fields.limit: 5000

```

Is not meant for the maximum number of documents you can retrieve but for the maximum number of fields you can have within your mapping.

See

> **[Mapping | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.9\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/mapping.html#mapping-limit-settings)**

If you want to extract more data, try this:

```auto
POST _sql?format=txt
{
  "query": "SELECT column1 FROM table",
  "fetch_size": 5000
}

```

More details about using cursors at:

> **[Paginating through a large response | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.9\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/sql-pagination.html)**

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-sql-retrieve-more-than-1000/250614/3 "2020-10-30T09:38:03Z")

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