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GKanitz
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May 20, 2021
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DATE_FORMAT is not supported for EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT.

I have been trying to create an external table from a CSV data set that does not use the default date format that synapse understands. So according to the documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en...
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    May 21, 2021

    After reaching out to MS I was told that the Serverless SQL pool has limited TSQL support and this seems to be one of the limitations.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/on-demand-workspace-overview

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