Kusto partitioning and sharding

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I dont know where i should post my quetion so i hope this is the right place.

I have a table which contains data which is ingested out-of-order, if i understand correctly the IngestionTime is used for sharding and partitioning the data in the Kusto DB.

If my data is ingested out-of-order and has its own "ReceivedTime" column which is a datetime. And i want to do my time based queries on the "ReceivedTime" i understand that i should partition my table on the "ReceivedTime" to make it as fast as possible, is that correct? 

I read you should be able to do someting like this by doing a Query through the fabric KQL DB Query with code option or the Azure Data Explorer:

.alter-merge table ['MyTable'] policy partitioning = 
{
    "PartitionKeys": [
        {
            "ColumnName": "ReceivedTime",
            "Kind": "UniformRange",
            "Properties": {
                "Reference": "2024-01-01T00:00:00",
                "RangeSize": "12.00:00:00",
                "OverrideCreationTime": false
            }
        }
    ]
}

When i try running this query i get a Syntax error: A recognition error occurred.

Can someone please tell me if im correct in saying i should partition the data as it should greatly increase performance of my time based queries? If so how i should do it since i dont see the issue with my query? 

Just in case it helps someone else, I found my info on Partitioning policy - Kusto | Microsoft Learn