Synapse Sparkpool delta table -External table on dedicated pool

Dondapati, Navin 281 Reputation points
2021-09-16T18:06:42.93+00:00

Hi Guys,

We have delta table in Synpase Spark pool; and we want to access the delta table as external table from dedicated pool; appreciate ifyou can provide syntax for the same;

And is it possible to access by version of or timestamp of table data based on version of delta table?

Regards,
Navin

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An Azure analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. Previously known as Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
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  1. ShaikMaheer-MSFT 37,896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2021-09-20T06:48:45.477+00:00

    Hi @Anonymous ,

    Thank you for posting query in Microsoft Q&A Platform.

    Unfortunately, External tables in Dedicated SQL pool will not support Delta format at this moment. Kindly check below screenshot for same.

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    Documentation reference for same: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/develop-tables-external-tables?tabs=hadoop

    Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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