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Anonymous
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Enable/disable load in Reference and Duplicate

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?

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v-cherch-msft
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

You may check this thread for reference. Here is the document about Reference vs Duplicate.

 

Regards,

Cherie

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous 

 

You may check this thread for reference. Here is the document about Reference vs Duplicate.

 

Regards,

Cherie

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Greg_Deckler
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Duplicate duplicates all of your M code, providing you a starting point to make changes whereas Reference creates a reference to the original query.



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