Systems and methods for use in pointing of datasets

A computer-implemented system for use in pointing associated with datasets, the computer-implemented system comprising:

• a data platform having at least one hardware processor, the data platform coupled in communication with a data source, which is a computing device, the data platform including a first dataset, a duplicate dataset and a connector, wherein the data platform is configured to provide access to data from the data source to multiple objects and wherein the duplicate dataset is a duplicate of the first dataset;
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• wherein the connector includes i) an intermediate dataset and an extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) process, or ii) a dataset view of the data platform, each of the ETL process and the dataset view including a dataset pointer, which includes a first value indicative of the first dataset, rather than the duplicate dataset;
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• wherein the first dataset is configured to store the data pushed from the data source;
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• wherein, based on a change of a structure of the first dataset, the duplicate dataset is configured to store data, pushed from the data source, which is consistent with the change of the structure;
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• wherein, after the duplicate dataset includes the data from the data source, the data platform is configured to change the dataset pointer in the connector from the first value specific to the first dataset to a second value specific to the duplicate dataset whereby the multiple objects access data from the duplicate dataset, via the connector, rather than from the first dataset, without re-pointing the multiple objects.