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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Querying a database in expression rule</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/30961/querying-a-database-in-expression-rule</link><description>How to Query a database values which exceeds the memory limit without any filters. Is there a way we can just type the first 3 characters and the respective values should be fetched?</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Querying a database in expression rule</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/123311?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:22:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2f8431c3-4f6b-4824-9ec8-61e13bd4bfa7</guid><dc:creator>Mike Schmitt</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You would want to have a paging limit applied to the search results, especially when they might possibly return so many that it throws an error due to the memory limit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Querying a database in expression rule</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/123307?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:42:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:13598c15-6390-42dd-901f-d144a9f638fe</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You could check for the length of that text and return a empty data subset if the text has&amp;nbsp;less than 3 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>