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6 years ago

Can you remove a dataflow datasource when it is no longer used in the dataflow?

I have created several data flows using azure blob storage and then linked them to another data flow that combines them via linked entities.  I do some transformations from queries that reference the...
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6 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

When you link entities between dataflows, you can reuse entities that have already been ingested, cleansed and transformed by other dataflows owned by others without the need to maintain that data. The linked entities simply point to the entities in other dataflows, and do not copy or duplicate the data.

 

That means linked entities still pull data from the original source.

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Gotcha.

     

    The issue I am facing isn't that the linked entity is or isn't pulling data from the original source.  It is that I can't remove a reference to the original source I created in the dataflow after changing it to a linked entity.  The dataflow continues to require the blob credentials even though the data flow no longer uses that data source.

     

    How can you remove the data source from the settings area after removing it from the data flow?  It still seems to remember the data source in the settings.