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CData Sync pipeline - introduce sleep/delay

  • July 13, 2026
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Is there a way to introduce a delay between steps in a CData Sync Pipeline? We have a limitation from a source API and need to ensure we delay our API requests by 15 seconds between calls, hence looking to add this delay.

Best answer by Ethem Q

@Rajesh 

What you are looking to accomplish should be feasible by using a script in a Post-Job in Windows. The following post from the community should be helpful: 

If you have any issues setting this up, feel free to reach out to the CData support team and one of our Sync Support specialists will further assist you.

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Ethem Q
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  • July 14, 2026

@Rajesh 

What you are looking to accomplish should be feasible by using a script in a Post-Job in Windows. The following post from the community should be helpful: 

If you have any issues setting this up, feel free to reach out to the CData support team and one of our Sync Support specialists will further assist you.


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  • July 29, 2026

For future reference, another option was to setup the components needed to use Python in the scripts and use the sleep command to incur a delay. This is the option we went with, though the above option also worked for us.