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Are Physical Tables retained when an Application has been deleted?

Hi all,

 In the application that we plan to decommission, there is an entity that we still need the data.

My question is, does the physical table still exist when the espace containing the entity has been deleted?

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Saurabh Shivananda Prabhu Chimulkar
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Hi Lawrence,

This question is already answered in earlier forum saying it will not delete.

Below is a reference to the same:

https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/53166/will-the-tables-delete-from-the-database-when-an-application-is-deleted/


Also below is OutSystems Documentation on how data model changes are handled:https://success.outsystems.com/Documentation/11/Reference/OutSystems_Language/Data/Database_Reference/How_Data_Model_Changes_are_Handled

Hope this helps


Regards,

Saurabh

2025-12-04 17-16-44
João Paulo

Yes, the physical table is kept even if you delete the application.

Anyway, if you want to use the data from the decommissioned application, as a best practice, you should move the data to a new application before deleting it.

Orphan tables may be deleted by a cleaner process that could occur in your environment.

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Lawrence Arielle Batuhan

yes, I saw that those orphan tables can be cleaned using DBCleaner. Thank you

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