Removing very old data in Import Set Row tables

[sieusaopolo15]

Hi,

Is it ok for me to delete old data in inside this table "sys_import_set_row" ? Is there any reason why system in ServiceNow still keeps old import data without cleanup jobs even though there is no processing between the data source and import set row table ?

[Anil Lande · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can delete the import set data after some interval, there is OOB job to clean up import set tables.

Check below link.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/tokyo-platform-administration/page/administer/import-sets/task/de...

[sieusaopolo15]

Hi @Anil Lande,

Thanks for giving the documentation related to cleanup old import data, but do you know why old import set data are still being kept ? Are they kept to be come logging data for data source or for further system's processing ?

[Anil Lande]

In some cases it can be used for debugging purpose. Like in case of integrations we should know what data we are receiving if something goes wrong.

At the end it comes to us whether to keep that data or not. If you think data is of no use and should be cleaned up then you can delete the records.