CERTIFIED-DATA-ANALYST-ASSOCIATE · Question #44
A data analyst is attempting to drop a table my_table. The analyst wants to delete all table metadata and data. They run the following command: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table; While the object no longe
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Question
A data analyst is attempting to drop a table my_table. The analyst wants to delete all table metadata and data. They run the following command:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table; While the object no longer appears when they run SHOW TABLES, the data files still exist. Which of the following describes why the data files still exist and the metadata files were deleted?
Options
- AThe table's data was larger than 10 GB
- BThe table did not have a location
- CThe table was external
- DThe table's data was smaller than 10 GB
- EThe table was managed
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