How many custom fields do you have?

[Anonymous]

We've been conservative in opening up SFDC fields to sync to Marketo and in creating new Marketo-native fields. My understanding from Marketo is that the more fields we create, the heavier the database gets... resulting in various operations getting slower.

So I'm wondering how conservative I really need to be, since I don't really want to hinder marketing operations just for the sake of database efficiency. But I also don't want to hinder marketing operations by having an inefficient database. 🙂

So I'm curious how many fields others have (and I guess it's important to note how many records you have), and if you've noticed performance hits as you've added them in.

Any input on any of this is very welcome. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Too many, about 100. Though to be fair we have multiple channels as well.

[Anonymous]

Same as jason

[Anonymous]

You are right to be a little conservative, I have worked with Marketo users before who have had 100s of fields per object and this was increasing the average sync time and increasing the likelihood of a backlog of updates. Certain fields such as formula fields and roll up summary fields may also take longer to sync.