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Archiving and Purging Historical Data

Purging the inactive data from time to time helps improve the performance of CA Service Catalog and the database.

Important! Verify that you are sure about archiving the data because once you archive the data, you cannot restore the data to production tables.

The following diagram explains the process of archiving and purging historical data related to requests and audits from the database.

Archive and Purge

Follow these steps:

  1. Complete the prerequisites.
  2. Prepare the MDB for archive and purge for the first time.
  3. Archive the data.
  4. Purge the data.