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Reading Delta Lake in Dedicated SQL Pool

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Mark Pryce-Maher
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Sep 15, 2022
In June, Databricks announced that they are open sourcing Delta Lake 2.0. Delta Lake is quickly becoming the format of choice in data science and data engineering.   To import Delta Lake into a S...
Updated Sep 14, 2022
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_MartinB
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Sep 15, 2022

Hi Mark Pryce-Maher & Terence_OShea, 

First of all: well done and thanks!


I don't get it: You (= Microsoft Program Manager for Synapse) recognized that Delta Lake is an important file format that should be (better) supported by Dedicated SQL pool.

But instead of convincing the Product Team to have this functionality build into the product itself, you come up with a 500 lines custom script. :suprised:

 

Sometimes I am really wondering who is prioritising the Synapse Backlog.