Exceptions for Incremental Files

The following information only applies to Incremental Direct Data files.

Transaction Times & Data for Incremental Files

With the availability of Incremental files with Direct Data API, Vault has a consistent way to capture and report on data changes that are committed to the database in 15-minute increments. This ensures that Direct Data API provides a fully consistent data state based on the committed data.

However, Incremental files only include Vault events that are committed to the database within a given time frame. The database commit time may differ from the last modified time. The last modified time may be updated by long-running transactions such as jobs, cascading state changes, or even triggers that create additional entities as part of an SDK job.

User Logins in Incremental Files

Direct Data API captures user logins as events within the user__sys.csv extract file even if no additional changes were made to the User object record, including if the record's modified_date__v value remains unchanged.