During cloning, are child tables of a parent table that is both a child and parent excluded?

[Casper6060]

Hi everyone

i'm curious about something with regards to excluded tables.

I know if i ask for task to be excluded, it will exclude task, and all it's children like incident and so on.

The same if i exclude the cmdb table, it will exclude everything under it.

However, what if i exclude cmdb_ci_computer. Because this table i both a child and a parent table.

So would all child tables of cmdb_ci_computer like cmdb_ci_server also be excluded?

Because of the way that the database is structured, cmdb_ci_computer is not a "physical" table, only cmdb which is the top parent is a "physical" table, so i 'm curious how exclusion works when a table is both a parent and a child and has it's own children.

Hope this makes sense

[Dr Atul G- LNG · Accepted solution]

Hi @Casper6060 

Yes, if a parent has been executed, the child gets executed as well.

[Casper6060]

Just to expand on this, i looked at various ServiceNow posts on the forum, and it looks like there was a time where this was NOT the case, but based on what i can read, these days it not functions and described where excluding a table will also exclude that tables children.