diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/constants.ts b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/constants.ts
index cbde46b0ef4df..ae6dd8f894d8f 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/constants.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/constants.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import {
 } from '@superset-ui/core';
 import { ColumnMeta, SortSeriesData, SortSeriesType } from './types';
 
+export const DEFAULT_MAX_ROW = 100000;
+
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/prefer-default-export
 export const TIME_FILTER_LABELS = {
   time_range: t('Time Range'),
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/shared-controls/sharedControls.tsx b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/shared-controls/sharedControls.tsx
index 57419b491899f..341aaa0729f08 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/shared-controls/sharedControls.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/shared-controls/sharedControls.tsx
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import {
   isDefined,
   hasGenericChartAxes,
   NO_TIME_RANGE,
+  validateMaxValue,
 } from '@superset-ui/core';
 
 import {
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT,
   DEFAULT_NUMBER_FORMAT,
 } from '../utils';
-import { TIME_FILTER_LABELS } from '../constants';
+import { DEFAULT_MAX_ROW, TIME_FILTER_LABELS } from '../constants';
 import {
   SharedControlConfig,
   Dataset,
@@ -243,7 +244,12 @@ const row_limit: SharedControlConfig<'SelectControl'> = {
   type: 'SelectControl',
   freeForm: true,
   label: t('Row limit'),
-  validators: [legacyValidateInteger],
+  clearable: false,
+  validators: [
+    legacyValidateInteger,
+    (v, state) =>
+      validateMaxValue(v, state?.common?.conf?.SQL_MAX_ROW || DEFAULT_MAX_ROW),
+  ],
   default: 10000,
   choices: formatSelectOptions(ROW_LIMIT_OPTIONS),
   description: t(
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/index.ts b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/index.ts
index 169675b682b3d..6294bddec7ca9 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/index.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/index.ts
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ export { default as legacyValidateNumber } from './legacyValidateNumber';
 export { default as validateInteger } from './validateInteger';
 export { default as validateNumber } from './validateNumber';
 export { default as validateNonEmpty } from './validateNonEmpty';
+export { default as validateMaxValue } from './validateMaxValue';
 export { default as validateMapboxStylesUrl } from './validateMapboxStylesUrl';
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/validateMaxValue.ts b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/validateMaxValue.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..24c1da1c79dde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/validator/validateMaxValue.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { t } from '../translation';
+
+export default function validateMaxValue(v: unknown, max: Number) {
+  if (Number(v) > +max) {
+    return t('Value cannot exceed %s', max);
+  }
+  return false;
+}
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/test/validator/validateMaxValue.test.ts b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/test/validator/validateMaxValue.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6a8ed1642e7b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/test/validator/validateMaxValue.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import { validateMaxValue } from '@superset-ui/core';
+import './setup';
+
+test('validateInteger returns the warning message if invalid', () => {
+  expect(validateMaxValue(10.1, 10)).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue(1, 0)).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue('2', 1)).toBeTruthy();
+});
+
+test('validateInteger returns false if the input is valid', () => {
+  expect(validateMaxValue(0, 1)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue(10, 10)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue(undefined, 1)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue(NaN, NaN)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue(null, 1)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue('1', 1)).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(validateMaxValue('a', 1)).toBeFalsy();
+});