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A data engineer is attempting to drop a Spark SQL table my_table. The data engineer 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?

A. The table did not have a location

B. The table's data was smaller than 10 GB

C. The table was external

D. The table's data was larger than 10 GB

E. The table was managed

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