Reference Guide for Oracle GoldenGate for HP NonStop (Guardian) Oracle GoldenGate Parameters LIMITRECS 2.137 LIMITRECS Valid for Extract Description Use LIMITRECS to set a maximum number of records to be extracted from a source table. This parameter has no effect unless you specify SOURCEISFILE. Use LIMITRECS to generate a sample of test data. SyntaxLIMITRECS num_recs num_recs The number of records to extract.