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Hello everyone,
I am a little confused with the difference between Reference and Duplicate.
Lets take an example here,
If I have a table say A which is connected to a datasource say SharePoint and a table B which is a reference of table A.
If I disable load of table A and refresh table B, it gets refreshed, so it means that table B can exist independently.
My concern here is, what is the point of having duplicate then?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @Anonymous
You may check this thread for reference. Here is the document about Reference vs Duplicate.
Regards,
Cherie
Hi @Anonymous
You may check this thread for reference. Here is the document about Reference vs Duplicate.
Regards,
Cherie
Duplicate duplicates all of your M code, providing you a starting point to make changes whereas Reference creates a reference to the original query.