title: Is there a way to clone a table in Kusto?
body: <p>Is there a way to clone a table in Kusto exactly so it has all the extents of the original table? Even if it's not possible to have extents retained , at least is there a performant way to copy a table to a new table. I tried the following:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>.set new_table &lt;| existing_table;
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  <p>It was running forever and got timeout error. Is there way to copy so the Kusto engine recognizes that this is just a dump copy so instead of using Kusto engine, it will just do a simple blob copy from back-end and simply point the new table to the copied blob thus bypassing the whole Kusto processing route?</p>