Just responded to your other post on the same topic. It looks like your workspace is not currently enabled for Direct CDC/integrated CDC for that connector. In Databricks, this commonly surfaces as the DIRECT_CDC_NOT_ENABLED validation error, which means the feature is not enabled for the org or workspace yet.

If you are using SQL Server, the public documentation refers to this as an integrated CDC pipeline. That feature is currently in Beta, and the docs state that workspace admins control access from the Previews page.

Here are some options you can try...

• Ask a workspace admin to open the workspace Previews page and check whether the relevant preview is available and enabled for that workspace.
• If the preview does not appear, contact your Databricks account team. The preview release docs note that if you do not see a Beta feature in your workspace, you should contact your Databricks account team.
• If you are creating the pipeline through the API, CLI, notebook, or Bundles, make sure the pipeline spec includes channel: "PREVIEW", because the integrated CDC docs require that for pipeline creation.
• If you need to validate the error itself, see the Databricks error reference for MANAGED_INGESTION_PIPELINE_SPEC_VALIDATION_ERROR, which includes DIRECT_CDC_NOT_ENABLED.

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