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HI @Heri,

 

Here I just wanna add some points. You can use PURGE option to delete data file as well along with partition metadata but it works only in Internal/ Managed tables 

ALTER TABLE table_name DROP [IF EXISTS] PARTITION partition_spec PURGE;

 

But for External tables have a two-step process to alter table drop partition + removing file

ALTER TABLE table_name DROP [IF EXISTS] PARTITION partition_spec;

hdfs dfs -rm -r <partition file path>

 

I hope this gives some insights here. cc @aakulov 

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