Reusing Filters and Joins

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Alation learns from you every time you run a query. If you join tables or use a data expression, Alation will automatically pick it up and enable you to save it for quick reuse.

On the table Catalog page, all previously used JOIN clauses are on the Joins tab. Data expressions are on the Filters tab.

Any filter or join can be saved and named for quick reuse in Compose.

For example, another user saved the filter northeast to include a set of Northeastern states:

Now you can type the term northeast instead of manually typing out each state and risk using the wrong definition. Saved filters allow analysts to save time and enhances the accuracy of your data.