Configure a Data Flow to Read Cached Data

You can configure a data flow to read cached data rather than live data, which improves performance and efficiency.

You might run your data flows against cached datasets if your source system is slow or resource-intensive, you want to limit direct queries, or if you need faster query performance. Caching is also suitable for incrementally reloaded datasets. Data flows are configured to read cached data by default. See Specify Whether a Dataset Table Is Cached or Live.

  1. On the Home page, click Navigator, then Data, then Data Flows.
  2. Hover over the data flow, and click Actions Icon for Actions menu, then click Inspect.
  3. Click the Sources/Targets tab, then under Run Configuration select Use source cache when available.
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  4. Click Save.