Answers.Body: <p>It should be okay if multiple users are not updating/uploaded same record type's same item at the same time. </p>
  
  <p>Like for example if multiple users are importing a same contact record, that might cause an DB error possibly.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Yes it is absolutely fine to import data simultaneously but it might take bit long time to complete it. If you want to perform multiple import simultaneously make sure you imports are not linked to each other.</p>
  
  <p>I usually prefer to do it one by one after taking backup at each stages. You never know when mysql might crash with an error saying mysql has gone away, already exists, invalid data etc.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: The only thing I would add is that depending on the size of what you're importing and your server config, you could run into errors with it timing out because you're doing too many large tasks at once.
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Body: <p>Is it okay to have more than one user import data at the same time another user is importing data?</p>
  
  <p>We have a bunch of segmented data to import split amongst multiple employees - is it okay if two employees are uploading at the same time?</p>
  
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Title: Is it okay to have simultaneous data import?
ThreadText: # Is it okay to have simultaneous data import?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-19)
  
  Is it okay to have more than one user import data at the same time another user is importing data?
  
  We have a bunch of segmented data to import split amongst multiple employees - is it okay if two employees are uploading at the same time?
  
  **Tags:** import, data-import
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-01-20. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Yes it is absolutely fine to import data simultaneously but it might take bit long time to complete it. If you want to perform multiple import simultaneously make sure you imports are not linked to each other.
  
  I usually prefer to do it one by one after taking backup at each stages. You never know when mysql might crash with an error saying mysql has gone away, already exists, invalid data etc.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: The only thing I would add is that depending on the size of what you're importing and your server config, you could run into errors with it timing out because you're doing too many large tasks at once.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-19. Score: 3
  
  It should be okay if multiple users are not updating/uploaded same record type's same item at the same time.
  
  Like for example if multiple users are importing a same contact record, that might cause an DB error possibly.
  
  
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