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Partitioning vs Distribution in Synapse

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You're reviewing how large warehouse tables should be laid out before building or tuning a pipeline in Azure Synapse Analytics. You want to separate choices that affect query pruning from choices that affect how data is spread across compute nodes.

Question

Explain the difference between table partitioning and table distribution in Azure Synapse Analytics.