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Importing data provider copies the data source but not the database view

*QUESTION:
After importing a new SQL view, a new data source and a new data provider to a target environment, I have two data sources with the same name in Changepoint. Why ?


*ANSWER:
When a data provider is imported in a target environment, it automatically creates the underlying data source, even if a data source with the same name is already available.If you have duplicated data sources with same name in an environment, it's only a display issue, there's no functional problem due to that.

To prevent duplicate data sources on an environment after importing a data provider :
- Create the view in the database but do NOT import the data source
- Import the data provider in the target environment, which will automatically create the data source