@Phil Haywood - I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer .
Ask: Issue with partitioned views/snapshot tables in azure synapse/ADLS.
Solution: Issue appears to have been fixed! Counts are now are match for partitioned vs. near real time (non-partitioned) tables.
If I missed anything please let me know and I'd be happy to add it to my answer, or feel free to comment below with any additional information.
If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.
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