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I’m using `database = prefect.context.get("database", "JOYN_SNOW_BI_1841")` in one of my flows, but if I set the database key via the Cloud interface like the below, it is not being used in the flow run - anybody got an idea what I’m doing wrong? Do I maybe need to transfer the context.get into a task?

Hi <@U01M5PVNF3L>! Yeah, can you try transferring it to a task?

Hi Kevin, I’ll give that a try :slightly_smiling_face:

It works fine in a task - am I right to assume that in a Flow the value gets serialised and not actually refreshed during the run?

For pickle based storage - yes. For <https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/script-based.html|script based storage>, I think not.