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The merge tool allows you to combine two datasets where entries in one
dataset should overwrite entries of an older dataset. For example, an
incremental import run in last-modified mode will generate multiple datasets
in HDFS where successively newer data appears in each dataset. The +merge+
tool will "flatten" two datasets into one, taking the newest available
records for each primary key.