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Using Table.Buffer
Hi michaelsh
If you buffer a table in a step, then transform that table in some way, then this new transformed table isn't the one that is buffered.
So in subsequent steps you can't continue to refer to the buffered table from your 1st step.
To be honest the workings of the Buffer functions aren't cleary undestood by anyone other than the Microsoft dev team. I've never read a definitive explanation of how or when to use them, hence Pat's suggestion to 'just try them out'.
Cheers
Phil
I see PhilipTreacy .
But if the subsequent steps modify the table, is it still better to Buffer just the first one, so that the subsequent steps do not go back to original data source, but just to the first buffered table?
I am still missing something...
Maybe you can provide a sample?
Thank you
Hi michaelsh
If you buffer a table in a step, then transform that table in some way, then this new transformed table isn't the one that is buffered.
So in subsequent steps you can't continue to refer to the buffered table from your 1st step.
To be honest the workings of the Buffer functions aren't cleary undestood by anyone other than the Microsoft dev team. I've never read a definitive explanation of how or when to use them, hence Pat's suggestion to 'just try them out'.
Cheers
Phil