diff --git a/packages/migrations/test/2023.11.02T14.41.41.schema-checks-dedup.test.ts b/packages/migrations/test/2023.11.02T14.41.41.schema-checks-dedup.test.ts
index 843d66fcb..75d78c3b5 100644
--- a/packages/migrations/test/2023.11.02T14.41.41.schema-checks-dedup.test.ts
+++ b/packages/migrations/test/2023.11.02T14.41.41.schema-checks-dedup.test.ts
@@ -240,13 +240,28 @@ await describe('migration: schema-checks-dedup', async () => {
         sql`SELECT count(*) as total FROM schema_checks`,
       );
       assert.strictEqual(countSchemaChecks, 4);
-      await db.query(sql`DELETE FROM schema_checks WHERE id = ${newSchemaCheck.id}`);
+      const expiresAt = new Date();
+      await db.query(sql`
+        UPDATE
+          schema_checks
+        SET
+          expires_at = ${expiresAt.toISOString()}
+        WHERE
+          id = ${newSchemaCheck.id}
+      `);
+
+      // Purge unused SDLs from sdl_store
+      const result = await storage.purgeExpiredSchemaChecks({
+        expiresAt,
+      });
+
+      assert.strictEqual(result.deletedSchemaCheckCount, 1);
+      assert.strictEqual(result.deletedSdlStoreCount, 3);
+
       countSchemaChecks = await db.oneFirst<number>(
         sql`SELECT count(*) as total FROM schema_checks`,
       );
       assert.strictEqual(countSchemaChecks, 3);
-      // Purge unused SDLs from sdl_store
-      await storage.purgeUnusedSchemasInStore();
 
       countSdlStore = await db.oneFirst<number>(sql`
         SELECT count(*) as total FROM sdl_store WHERE
diff --git a/packages/services/api/src/modules/shared/providers/storage.ts b/packages/services/api/src/modules/shared/providers/storage.ts
index 6b024dc7f..83e9dd557 100644
--- a/packages/services/api/src/modules/shared/providers/storage.ts
+++ b/packages/services/api/src/modules/shared/providers/storage.ts
@@ -675,11 +675,10 @@ export interface Storage {
   /**
    * Delete the expired schema checks from the database.
    */
-  purgeExpiredSchemaChecks(_: { expiresAt: Date }): Promise<number>;
-  /**
-   * Delete rows from sdl_store that are not referenced by any schema check.
-   */
-  purgeUnusedSchemasInStore(): Promise<void>;
+  purgeExpiredSchemaChecks(_: { expiresAt: Date }): Promise<{
+    deletedSchemaCheckCount: number;
+    deletedSdlStoreCount: number;
+  }>;
   /**
    * Find schema check for a given ID and target.
    */
diff --git a/packages/services/server/src/index.ts b/packages/services/server/src/index.ts
index f03c8b6ab..0d88d114e 100644
--- a/packages/services/server/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/services/server/src/index.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   registerTRPC,
   reportReadiness,
   startMetrics,
+  startSentryTransaction,
 } from '@hive/service-common';
 import { createConnectionString, createStorage as createPostgreSQLStorage } from '@hive/storage';
 import { Dedupe, ExtraErrorData } from '@sentry/integrations';
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ export async function main() {
 
   const storage = await createPostgreSQLStorage(createConnectionString(env.postgres), 10);
 
-  let dbPureTaskRunner: null | ReturnType<typeof createTaskRunner> = null;
+  let dbPurgeTaskRunner: null | ReturnType<typeof createTaskRunner> = null;
 
   if (!env.hiveServices.usageEstimator) {
     server.log.debug('Usage estimation is disabled. Skip scheduling purge tasks.');
@@ -98,17 +99,35 @@ export async function main() {
     server.log.debug(
       `Usage estimation is enabled. Start scheduling purge tasks every ${env.hiveServices.usageEstimator.dateRetentionPurgeIntervalMinutes} minutes.`,
     );
-    dbPureTaskRunner = createTaskRunner({
+    dbPurgeTaskRunner = createTaskRunner({
       async run() {
-        await storage.purgeExpiredSchemaChecks({
-          expiresAt: new Date(),
+        const transaction = startSentryTransaction({
+          op: 'db.purgeTaskRunner',
+          name: 'Purge Task',
         });
-        // TODO: activate await storage.purgeUnusedSchemasInStore();
+        try {
+          const result = await storage.purgeExpiredSchemaChecks({
+            expiresAt: new Date(),
+          });
+          server.log.debug(
+            'Finished running schema check purge task. (deletedSchemaCheckCount=%s deletedSdlStoreCount=%s)',
+            result.deletedSchemaCheckCount,
+            result.deletedSdlStoreCount,
+          );
+          transaction.setMeasurement('deletedSchemaCheckCount', result.deletedSchemaCheckCount, '');
+          transaction.setMeasurement('deletedSdlStoreCount', result.deletedSdlStoreCount, '');
+          transaction.finish();
+        } catch (error) {
+          captureException(error);
+          transaction.setStatus('internal_error');
+          transaction.finish();
+          throw error;
+        }
       },
       interval: env.hiveServices.usageEstimator.dateRetentionPurgeIntervalMinutes * 60 * 1000,
       logger: server.log,
     });
-    dbPureTaskRunner.start();
+    dbPurgeTaskRunner.start();
   }
 
   registerShutdown({
@@ -118,9 +137,9 @@ export async function main() {
       await server.close();
       server.log.info('Stopping Storage handler...');
       await storage.destroy();
-      if (dbPureTaskRunner) {
+      if (dbPurgeTaskRunner) {
         server.log.info('Stopping expired schema check purge task...');
-        await dbPureTaskRunner.stop();
+        await dbPurgeTaskRunner.stop();
       }
       server.log.info('Shutdown complete.');
     },
diff --git a/packages/services/service-common/src/index.ts b/packages/services/service-common/src/index.ts
index 68f94e2fa..d8e214b2b 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-common/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-common/src/index.ts
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ export * from './heartbeats';
 export * from './trpc';
 export { registerShutdown } from './graceful-shutdown';
 export { cleanRequestId } from './helpers';
+export { startSentryTransaction } from './sentry';
diff --git a/packages/services/service-common/src/sentry.ts b/packages/services/service-common/src/sentry.ts
index bc92e9a93..3bc6fecf4 100644
--- a/packages/services/service-common/src/sentry.ts
+++ b/packages/services/service-common/src/sentry.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 import type { FastifyInstance, FastifyPluginAsync, FastifyRequest } from 'fastify';
 import fp from 'fastify-plugin';
 import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';
-import type { ExtractedNodeRequestData, TraceparentData, Transaction } from '@sentry/types';
+import type {
+  CustomSamplingContext,
+  ExtractedNodeRequestData,
+  TraceparentData,
+  Transaction,
+  TransactionContext,
+} from '@sentry/types';
 import { extractTraceparentData, normalize } from '@sentry/utils';
 import { cleanRequestId } from './helpers';
 
@@ -43,7 +49,7 @@ const plugin: FastifyPluginAsync = async server => {
 
     const extractedRequestData = extractRequestData(request);
 
-    const transaction = Sentry.startTransaction(
+    const transaction = startSentryTransaction(
       {
         op: 'http.server',
         name: `${request.method} ${request.url}`,
@@ -52,9 +58,6 @@ const plugin: FastifyPluginAsync = async server => {
       { request: extractedRequestData },
     );
     (reply as any).sentryTransaction = transaction;
-    transaction.sampled = true;
-
-    Sentry.configureScope(scope => scope.setSpan(transaction));
 
     return;
   });
@@ -210,3 +213,15 @@ function replaceAuthorization(value?: string | string[]): string | string[] {
 
   return '<missing>';
 }
+
+export function startSentryTransaction(
+  context: TransactionContext,
+  customSamplingContext?: CustomSamplingContext,
+) {
+  const transaction = Sentry.startTransaction(context, customSamplingContext);
+  transaction.sampled = true;
+
+  Sentry.configureScope(scope => scope.setSpan(transaction));
+
+  return transaction;
+}
diff --git a/packages/services/storage/src/index.ts b/packages/services/storage/src/index.ts
index a15c2f206..d871e9cbe 100644
--- a/packages/services/storage/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/services/storage/src/index.ts
@@ -3687,34 +3687,61 @@ export async function createStorage(connection: string, maximumPoolSize: number)
     },
 
     async purgeExpiredSchemaChecks(args) {
-      await pool.query(sql`
-        DELETE
-        FROM
-          "public"."schema_checks"
-        WHERE
-          "expires_at" <= ${args.expiresAt.toISOString()}
-      `);
+      return await pool.transaction(async pool => {
+        const result = await pool.any<unknown>(sql`
+          DELETE
+          FROM "public"."schema_checks"
+          WHERE 
+            "id" = ANY(
+              SELECT
+                "id"
+              FROM
+                "public"."schema_checks"
+              WHERE
+                "expires_at" <= ${args.expiresAt.toISOString()}
+              LIMIT
+                1000
+            )
+          RETURNING
+            "schema_sdl_store_id" as "id1",
+            "supergraph_sdl_store_id" as "id2",
+            "composite_schema_sdl_store_id" as "id3"
+        `);
+        const ids = PurgeExpiredSchemaChecksIDModel.parse(result);
 
-      return 0;
-    },
+        if (ids.size === 0) {
+          return {
+            deletedSchemaCheckCount: result.length,
+            deletedSdlStoreCount: 0,
+          };
+        }
+        const deletedRecords = await pool.any<unknown>(sql`
+          DELETE
+          FROM
+            "sdl_store"
+          WHERE
+            "id" = ANY(
+              ${sql.array(Array.from(ids), 'text')}
+            )
+            AND NOT EXISTS (
+              SELECT
+                1
+              FROM
+                "schema_checks"
+              WHERE
+                "schema_checks"."schema_sdl_store_id" = "sdl_store"."id"
+                OR "schema_checks"."composite_schema_sdl_store_id" = "sdl_store"."id"
+                OR "schema_checks"."supergraph_sdl_store_id" = "sdl_store"."id"
+            )
+          RETURNING
+            true as "d"
+        `);
 
-    async purgeUnusedSchemasInStore() {
-      await pool.query(sql`
-        DELETE FROM "public"."sdl_store"
-        WHERE id NOT IN (
-            SELECT DISTINCT schema_sdl_store_id
-            FROM "public"."schema_checks"
-            WHERE schema_sdl_store_id IS NOT NULL
-          UNION
-            SELECT DISTINCT supergraph_sdl_store_id
-            FROM "public"."schema_checks"
-            WHERE supergraph_sdl_store_id IS NOT NULL
-          UNION
-            SELECT DISTINCT composite_schema_sdl_store_id
-            FROM "public"."schema_checks"
-            WHERE composite_schema_sdl_store_id IS NOT NULL
-        )
-      `);
+        return {
+          deletedSchemaCheckCount: result.length,
+          deletedSdlStoreCount: deletedRecords.length,
+        };
+      });
     },
 
     async getSchemaVersionByActionId(args) {
@@ -4145,4 +4172,22 @@ const TargetModel = zod.object({
   graphqlEndpointUrl: zod.string().nullable(),
 });
 
+const PurgeExpiredSchemaChecksIDModel = zod
+  .array(
+    zod.object({
+      id1: zod.string().nullable(),
+      id2: zod.string().nullable(),
+      id3: zod.string().nullable(),
+    }),
+  )
+  .transform(items => {
+    const ids = new Set<string>();
+    for (const row of items) {
+      row.id1 && ids.add(row.id1);
+      row.id2 && ids.add(row.id2);
+      row.id3 && ids.add(row.id3);
+    }
+    return ids;
+  });
+
 export * from './schema-change-model';