stats
transforms, so your original fields are no longer accessible. dedup
is a great way to limit the number of rows to be used further down the line, and still have full access to the fields and their values.
stats
transforms, so your original fields are no longer accessible. dedup
is a great way to limit the number of rows to be used further down the line, and still have full access to the fields and their values.
Because there are times you want to dedup without using stats. So both commands are valid. If you are going to stats then you would be redundant to also use dedup.