BPM_ERRORS table filling up impacting database performance

Products

• CLARITY PPM FOR ITG
• CLARITY PPM FEDERAL
• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

On reviewing our production database performance, in particular any high CPU usage transactions, we notice that the BPM_ERRORS table is doing a FULL TABLE SCAN every time it runs The table is currently 300m in size. Every time that table is queried, Oracle will have to flush all its buffer data to disk in order to load bpm_errors data for read. Can the records from this table be deleted or truncated?

 

Environment

Release:
Component: STUDIO

Resolution

Run the Delete Process Instance Job. If there are many records to delete, the job will take long time.

So make sure that you enter date parameters (eg. run month by month).

Also take DB backup before running it.

Delete process instance job removes the respective entries from the following tables:

. CAL_ACTION_ITEM_ASSIGNEES   
. BPM_RUN_PROCESSES   
. CAL_ACTION_ITEMS   
. BPM_RUN_ASSIGNEE_NOTES   
. BPM_RUN_REPLACE_ASSIGNEES   
. BPM_RUN_ASSIGNEES   
. BPM_RUN_STEP_TRANSITIONS   
. BPM_RUN_STEP_COND_RESULTS   
. BPM_RUN_STEP_COND_OBJECTS   
. BPM_RUN_STEP_ACTION_RESULTS     

. BPM_RUN_OBJECTS   
. BPM_RUN_STEPS   
. ESC_RUN_USERS   
. ESC_RUN_LEVELS   
. ESC_RUN_UNREG_OBJECTS   
. BPM_RUN_OBJECTS   
. BPM_RUN_THREADS   
. BPM_ERRORS   
. BPM_ERROR_ARGUMENTS   

Additional Information

For further information, please refer to Technical document
kb000055230- I need more information about the 'Delete Process Instances' Job.