# General

| Goal                                                                                             | Best Practice                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| Avoiding sharing computations                                                                    | Avoid having any user own more than 10,000 records.                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Improving performance                                                                            | Use a data-tiering strategy that spreads data across multiple objects, and brings in data on demand from another object or external store.                                                                                          |
| Reducing the time it takes to create full copies of production sandboxes with large data volumes | When creating copies of production sandboxes, exclude field history if it isn’t required, and don’t change a lot of data until the sandbox copy is created.                                                                         |
| Making deployments more efficient                                                                | Distribute child records so that no parent has more than 10,000 child records. For example, in a deployment that has many contacts but does not use accounts, set up several dummy accounts and distribute the contacts among them. |