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The presence of a FROM <init-evid> tag makes this dump not a bootstrap, but a dump which looks at the event log to produce a delta dump. FROM 200 TO 1400 is self-evident in that it will go through event ids 200 to 1400 looking for events from the relevant db.

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In second case, policy is again changed to include table/view 'Q5' and in this case, Hive would intelligently bootstrap the table/view 'Q5' in the current incremental dump. The same is applicable for table/view renames where 

(i) REPL DUMP sales WITH ('hive.repl.include.external.tables'='false', 'hive.repl.dump.metadata.only'='true');

The REPL DUMP command has an optional WITH clause to set command-specific configurations to be used when trying to dump. These configurations are only used by the corresponding REPL DUMP command and won't be used for other queries running in the same session. In this example, we set the configurations to exclude external tables and also include only metadata and don't dump data. 

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