Materialization
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There are two types of materialization:
complete: a copy of the source objects is created in the analytical storage, and all changes in the source are applied to the materialized table with each subsequent running of the job;
incremental: only newly added data from the source table is copied to the analytical storage.
In the subpages, we explain both types in more detail.