diff --git a/internal/repository/jobCreate.go b/internal/repository/jobCreate.go
index 9f4f366d..1ae05d8d 100644
--- a/internal/repository/jobCreate.go
+++ b/internal/repository/jobCreate.go
@@ -85,6 +85,22 @@ func (r *JobRepository) SyncJobs() ([]*schema.Job, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Resolve correct job.id from the job table. The IDs read from job_cache
+	// are from a different auto-increment sequence and must not be used to
+	// query the job table.
+	for _, job := range jobs {
+		var newID int64
+		if err := sq.Select("job.id").From("job").
+			Where("job.job_id = ? AND job.cluster = ? AND job.start_time = ?",
+				job.JobID, job.Cluster, job.StartTime).
+			RunWith(r.stmtCache).QueryRow().Scan(&newID); err != nil {
+			cclog.Warnf("SyncJobs: could not resolve job table id for job %d on %s: %v",
+				job.JobID, job.Cluster, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		job.ID = &newID
+	}
+
 	return jobs, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/repository/jobCreate_test.go b/internal/repository/jobCreate_test.go
index 9e72555f..5bc0c0ee 100644
--- a/internal/repository/jobCreate_test.go
+++ b/internal/repository/jobCreate_test.go
@@ -489,6 +489,34 @@ func TestSyncJobs(t *testing.T) {
 		require.NoError(t, err)
 	})
 
+	t.Run("sync returns job table IDs not cache IDs", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// Ensure cache is empty first
+		_, err := r.DB.Exec("DELETE FROM job_cache")
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// Insert a job into job_cache
+		job := createTestJob(999015, "testcluster")
+		cacheID, err := r.Start(job)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		// Sync jobs
+		jobs, err := r.SyncJobs()
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.Equal(t, 1, len(jobs))
+
+		// The returned ID must refer to the job table, not job_cache
+		var jobTableID int64
+		err = r.DB.QueryRow("SELECT id FROM job WHERE job_id = ? AND cluster = ? AND start_time = ?",
+			jobs[0].JobID, jobs[0].Cluster, jobs[0].StartTime).Scan(&jobTableID)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, jobTableID, *jobs[0].ID,
+			"returned ID should match the job table row, not the cache ID (%d)", cacheID)
+
+		// Clean up
+		_, err = r.DB.Exec("DELETE FROM job WHERE job_id = ? AND cluster = ?", job.JobID, job.Cluster)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	})
+
 	t.Run("sync with empty cache returns empty list", func(t *testing.T) {
 		// Ensure cache is empty
 		_, err := r.DB.Exec("DELETE FROM job_cache")
diff --git a/internal/repository/node.go b/internal/repository/node.go
index 4b10aea3..09415bef 100644
--- a/internal/repository/node.go
+++ b/internal/repository/node.go
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ type NodeStateWithNode struct {
 func (r *NodeRepository) FindNodeStatesBefore(cutoff int64) ([]NodeStateWithNode, error) {
 	rows, err := sq.Select(
 		"node_state.id", "node_state.time_stamp", "node_state.node_state",
-		"node_state.health_state", "COALESCE(node_state.health_metrics, '')",
+		"node_state.health_state", "node_state.health_metrics",
 		"node_state.cpus_allocated", "node_state.memory_allocated",
 		"node_state.gpus_allocated", "node_state.jobs_running",
 		"node.hostname", "node.cluster", "node.subcluster",
@@ -293,13 +293,15 @@ func (r *NodeRepository) FindNodeStatesBefore(cutoff int64) ([]NodeStateWithNode
 	var result []NodeStateWithNode
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var ns NodeStateWithNode
+		var healthMetrics sql.NullString
 		if err := rows.Scan(&ns.ID, &ns.TimeStamp, &ns.NodeState,
-			&ns.HealthState, &ns.HealthMetrics,
+			&ns.HealthState, &healthMetrics,
 			&ns.CpusAllocated, &ns.MemoryAllocated,
 			&ns.GpusAllocated, &ns.JobsRunning,
 			&ns.Hostname, &ns.Cluster, &ns.SubCluster); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		ns.HealthMetrics = healthMetrics.String
 		result = append(result, ns)
 	}
 	return result, nil