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Hi,
Yes, that's accurate, the Delta Lake (Parquet) export option in Azure Synapse Link is being deprecated. To summarize the timeline from the notice:
The recommended path forward is Link to Microsoft Fabric, which Microsoft now positions as the primary way to get Delta/Parquet-format data with much lower sync latency than the old Synapse Link setup. If you're not ready to move to Fabric yet, the other supported option is switching to CSV output within Azure Synapse Link, but that's really meant as an interim step, not a long-term replacement for Delta users.
A couple of practical notes if you're planning this out:
So to directly answer your question, no, this isn't a rumor or misreading, it's an official deprecation notice, and the clock on it is already running.
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