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  1. [In preview] More flexible date formats in Polybase

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    https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/t-sql/statements/copy-into-transact-sql?view=azure-sqldw-latest

    Polybase currently has very limited date format support. All of the acceptable date formats have dashes or slashes. For example, I can't define a date format of yyyyMMdd since it doesn't have slashes or dashes. Please allow any date format I can express.

    Also, please allow more than one date format per external table. For example, what if I have a date column as yyyyMMdd and then a different column as yyyyMMddHHmm. With only being able to define one date format in the CREATE EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT statement I think I…

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