External Tables vs T-SQL Views in Synapse

James Serra explains the differences between external tables and T-SQL views in Azure Synapse Analytics when querying from Data Lake Storage:

A question that I have been hearing recently from customers using Azure Synapse Analytics (the public preview version) is what is the difference between using an external table versus a T-SQL view on a file in a data lake?

Note that a T-SQL view and an external table pointing to a file in a data lake can be created in both a SQL Provisioned pool as well as a SQL On-demand pool.

Here are the differences that I have found:

Click through for the differences.