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title: Schedule Discovery
slug: reference-guide-3-0-0/schedule-discovery
description: Learn how to configure and execute a scheduled data discovery with this document. Fill in fields like discovery name, description, and cron expression, and select database, schema, table, pattern, sample data count, matched percentages, and thread count. 
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createdAt: 2022-08-01T17:37:13.000Z
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Aside from manual discovery, a scheduled discovery can also be configured:

1. Navigate to **Sensitive Data Discovery**.
2. Open the** Schedule Discovery** tab.
3. Fill in the **Discovery Name**, **Description**, and **Cron Expression**.
4. Select the **Database**, **Schema**,** Table, Pattern**, **Sample Data Count**, **Expected Matched Percentages**, and** Thread Count**.
5. Click the **Save Scheduler **button.

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To execute the scheduled discovery, the SDD schedule job must be defined:



1. Navigate to** Administration **>** Jobs Scheduler**.
2. Open the **Triger List** tab.
3. Select **SDDSchedule** as the Job.
4. Fill in the **Trigger Name** and** Cron Expression** fields
5. To enable the job, select **Enabled** in the **Active** field and click **Save**.

When the scheduled discovery is completed, the discovery results are shown in the Schedule Result Page tab.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/g9cApVza9NIhSh0pjZYtA/rJgVg1nsQ1_mD2AhPjeFi_image.png "Schedule Data Discovery Results")

A discovery summary can also be viewed. Click the **Show Summary **option
on the **Search Result **section.

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