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HPCC-16283 Document BUILD after MERGE
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Signed-off-by: Jim DeFabia <[email protected]>
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Jim DeFabia committed Oct 24, 2023
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<emphasis>recordsetset</emphasis>. This is particularly useful for
incremental data updates as it allows you to merge a smaller set of new
records into an existing large dataset or index without having to re-process
all the source data again. The <emphasis>recordsetset</emphasis> form makes
merging a variable number of datasets possible when used inside a GRAPH
function.</para>
all the source data again. </para>

<para>The <emphasis>recordsetset</emphasis> form makes merging a variable
number of datasets possible when used inside a GRAPH function.</para>

<para>To write a MERGEd index to disk, you must use the BUILD action.</para>

<?hard-pagebreak ?>

<para>Example:</para>

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OUTPUT(ds3);
OUTPUT(ds4);
</programlisting>

<para>See Also: <link linkend="BUILD">BUILD</link></para>
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