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Connection: If the property is set at the connection, then the property value is applicable for all transformation build, semantic model processes, or data profile jobs launched using Spark.
Semantic model: If the property is set on a semantic model, then the value will override the connection level value for that semantic model’s job.
Comes into effect:
This property comes into effect only when the execution engine is set as MapReduce. The value of the property can be changed at any time and will be respected in the next build process instance.
Dependencies and related properties:
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