Data difference between VBUK and VBAK

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Hello Experts,

I am there in a confusion for the the data entries between VBAK (Sales document header) and VBUK (Header Status and Administrative Data Table). I was in the assumption that # of entries and content (Sales document #) in both of the table would be the same as one is for Sales doc header and other is for its status,while this was not there, some of the entries were there in VBUK which were not in VBAK. I know this seems to be pretty basic question but can anyone please comment over here.

Regards,

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

Data inconsistency can also happen if there is a programming error (either in standard or custom code) and not all records are updated/deleted in the same transaction. I believe there are SAP notes that address the "ghost" record issues, search in SAP Support Portal.