cursor_after()

Learn how to use the cursor_after() function to compare the ingestion time of the records of a table against the database cursor time.

A predicate runs over the records of a table to compare their ingestion time against a database cursor.

IngestionTime policy enabled.

Syntax

cursor_after(RHS)

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
RHSstring✔️Either an empty string literal or a valid database cursor value.

Returns

Returns a scalar value of type bool that indicates whether the record was ingested after the database cursor RHS (true) or not (false).

Examples

The following example retrieves records ingested after a specific database cursor.

MyTable
| where cursor_after('2024-08-01T00:00:00Z')

Output The output includes all records from MyTable that were ingested after the specified date, August 1, 2024.

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