diff --git a/src/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables.clj b/src/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables.clj
index 82b640d5b5e8c694b226eb652d1aeafa2a8ac22d..cf0a76e678835aa92052d9119db36bb67aa91e02 100644
--- a/src/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables.clj
+++ b/src/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables.clj
@@ -110,14 +110,16 @@
       (db/update! Table existing-id
         :active true)
       ;; otherwise create a new Table
-      (db/insert! Table
-        :db_id           (u/the-id database)
-        :schema          schema
-        :name            table-name
-        :display_name    (humanization/name->human-readable-name table-name)
-        :active          true
-        :visibility_type (when (is-crufty-table? table)
-                           :cruft)))))
+      (let [is-crufty? (is-crufty-table? table)]
+       (db/insert! Table
+         :db_id               (u/the-id database)
+         :schema              schema
+         :name                table-name
+         :display_name        (humanization/name->human-readable-name table-name)
+         :active              true
+         :visibility_type     (when is-crufty? :cruft)
+         ;; if this is a crufty table, mark initial sync as complete since we'll skip the subsequent sync steps
+         :initial_sync_status (if is-crufty? "complete" "incomplete"))))))
 
 
 (s/defn ^:private retire-tables!
diff --git a/test/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables_test.clj b/test/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables_test.clj
index ec60cf983762fe0b7cdeba1da691b442213018fa..7a68b443f1e25fe904f113ee68ab765622168c09 100644
--- a/test/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables_test.clj
+++ b/test/metabase/sync/sync_metadata/tables_test.clj
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 (deftest crufty-tables-test
   (testing "south_migrationhistory, being a CRUFTY table, should still be synced, but marked as such"
     (mt/dataset metabase.sync.sync-metadata.tables-test/db-with-some-cruft
-      (is (= #{{:name "SOUTH_MIGRATIONHISTORY", :visibility_type :cruft}
-               {:name "ACQUIRED_TOUCANS",       :visibility_type nil}}
-             (set (for [table (db/select [Table :name :visibility_type], :db_id (mt/id))]
+      (is (= #{{:name "SOUTH_MIGRATIONHISTORY", :visibility_type :cruft, :initial_sync_status "complete"}
+               {:name "ACQUIRED_TOUCANS",       :visibility_type nil,    :initial_sync_status "complete"}}
+             (set (for [table (db/select [Table :name :visibility_type :initial_sync_status], :db_id (mt/id))]
                     (into {} table))))))))
 
 (deftest retire-tables-test