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title: "Avoid Creating cross-table Business Rule Recursive Loops"
description: "**Impact area** Performance **Severity** High **Affected element** Business Rules ## Rule ID **SN-0423** ## Impact Business Rules updating records on other tables can trigger recursive loops if any Business Rule on the updated table in turn modifies the original table,…"
url: "https://community-staging.qualityclouds.com/qcdocs/qc/servicenow-rules/avoid-creating-cross-table-business-rule-recursive-loops/"
updated: "2025-03-21"
category: Rules
---

# Avoid Creating cross-table Business Rule Recursive Loops

**Impact area**

Performance

**Severity**

High

**Affected element**

Business Rules

## Rule ID

**SN-0423**

## Impact

Business Rules updating records on other tables can trigger recursive loops if any Business Rule on the updated table in turn modifies the original table, either directly or through other tables. This would cause the chain of Business Rules to execute in a loop.

Remediation

Avoid updating other tables from Business Rules. If you must do it, ensure that there are no direct or indirect references to the original table which would cause a recursive execution loop.

**Time to fix**

40 min