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A data engineering team has created a Delta Lake table named customers_clone using the following query: CREATE TABLE customers_clone LOCATION 'dbfs:/mnt/backup' AS SELECT * FROM customers. If a data engineer attempts to drop this table with the command DROP TABLE customers_clone, what will be the outcome?*_
A
An error will be thrown because the table is a deep clone of the customers table.
B
An error will be thrown because the table is a shallow clone of the customers table.
C
Only the metadata of the table will be removed from the catalog, leaving the data files intact in storage.
D
Both the metadata and the data files of the table will be permanently deleted.
E
The table will not be dropped until a VACUUM command is executed.