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Will Running the Historical Job Overwrite Daily Job Data?

supriya pratapa
Tera Guru

I have a daily job that collects incidents in the Awaiting Info state, and it has been running every day for the past four months. I also have a historical job that collects the same type of data for the past six months, but it was only run once at the beginning. If I run the historical job again now, will it overwrite the data that has already been collected by the daily job?

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AndersBGS
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Hi @supriya pratapa ,

 

Yes, then data will be overwritten.

 

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Dr Atul G- LNG
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Hi @supriya pratapa 

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/platform-analytics-forum/historical-daily-jobs/m-p/1215803

 

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jeffrubinoff
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TL;dr: Do not run the historical job again as it will overwrite your collected daily data.

That was consistently part of the logic shared—the Historical Job should not run again. 

 

@supriya pratapa 

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Raghav Sharma24
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yes it will, historical jobs just need to run when a new indicator is created or source is changed.

 

Running historical jobs have performance impacts as well based on the data being collected.


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