Data purge

A data purge is the process of permanently removing data from the Payroll.

Some examples of when you might want to purge data are:

After completing your installation and testing to remove any garbage data
After creating a backup of historical data

For example, the company wants to have immediate access (through drill around, queries, running reports, and so on) to the current year's data plus two previous years of data. You archive the data for the years previous to the years you want to access and then purge this data from the production database.

Caution:

Purging employee records permanently removes the employee from Payroll. If you mistakenly purge an employee, you can re-enter the employee, but you CANNOT retrieve history on the employee. Purged payroll history must be reloaded using conversion program Payroll History Load CSV (PR560).