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Incremental Refresh on Compute Entities
This has been a while since I posted the original question. We have implemented the incremental refresh between dataflows (for example, staging and processing dataflows) and it's been working excellent.
The confusion is between linked and compute entities, as mentioned above. The linked entities cannot be changed from downstream dataflows and so the question does not apply to them. But if you load your original data into a compute entity, then it is possible to implement IR between them.
In our case, it reduced the downstream processing of a large dataflow table (~500 million rows) from 4 hours to about 20 minutes.
Thanks for your reply. Does it mean that incremental refresh logic implemented at the source is propagated throughout all linked entities? Can you post a link to where I can read more?
Yes, linked entities are reference entity that does not create a replica itself that is why linked entities should not use incremental refresh if they reference a dataflow.
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I think there's been a misunderstanding. We're not referring to incremental refresh on linked entities, but for computed entities. See the original post. Thanks!
