# @normalize limit - override?
**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/normalize-limit-override/5200
**Category:** Users
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/normalize-limit-override/5200 "2019-10-07T14:32:57Z")
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### Author:  [@mikehawkes](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mikehawkes)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/normalize-limit-override/5200/1 "2019-10-07T14:32:57Z")
I’m using @normalize to flatten a large data set - and suddenly found it has a hard limit of 10,000 records. Can I ask why there’s such a limit - can I remove the limit entirely? It seems crazy that I can return a nested dataset of unlimited size and flatten in my own code, whereas I can’t use the function built in to Dgraph that appears to exist for exactly this purpose.
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### Author:  [@MichelDiz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/MichelDiz)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/normalize-limit-override/5200/2 "2019-10-07T17:14:31Z")
In general you can set in the root query a param “first: 10000000” so you can overcome some limits. But in the case of normalize, the Alpha has a flag for it.
run:
```auto
dgraph alpha --help | grep normalize
normalize_node_limit uint Limit for the maximum number of nodes that can
be returned in a query that uses the normalize directive. (default 10000)
```
So you need to set the Alpha flag to
`--normalize_node_limit 10000000`
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/normalize-limit-override/5200/3 "2019-11-06T17:14:31Z")
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