Developers can write faster install code

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users, automatically	Mar 1, 2023	Apr 1, 2023

Business value

Using a new language construct, developers can write faster install code when they want to move a field (with data) from one table to another, or when they want to copy all data from one table to another.

Feature details

When refactoring an app, developers often need to move a field from one table to another, or to copy all data from one table to another. With this feature, a developer can copy the data from the old field to the new field, or copy the data from the old table to the new, in a set-based way without having to write a loop.

With DataTransfer, install code runs significantly faster.

See also

Transferring data (docs)