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 Cloe Walker (CloeW938)
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CloeW938 Member since 2018 158 posts
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Posted: July 20, 2020
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Posted: 20 Jul 2020 19:21 EDT
Last activity: 24 May 2021 9:06 EDT
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What is "CustomerData" for?

Hi,

"CustomerData" was introduced in Pega 7.4, but what is this for? It just points to "PegaDATA" but then why was additional instance needed?

Thanks,

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Posted: 1 year ago
Posted: 21 Jul 2020 1:29 EDT
Nizam Mohammed (Nizam)
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In 7.4, any new tables that you add to CustomerData are added as non-Pega formatted tables and you cannot move pega formatted tables to it. If you create any table from AppStudio, it will be created in customer data.

 

The purpose is that it brings CRM core data types into your application and also to store records of custom tables created during the development.
Posted: 1 year ago
Posted: 21 Jul 2020 2:19 EDT
Cloe Walker (CloeW938)
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I understand CustomerData is different from PegaDATA as it does not have blob in the physical table. That is explained in below article.

https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/customerdata-non-blob-vs-pegadata-blob

 

However as explained in above post, properties defined in Data Type are exposed anyways, then from performance perspective it does not make any difference. If that is correct, then why exactly was this introduced? The need is still unclear to me.

 

Thanks,