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A data analyst is attempting to drop a table named sales_data . The analyst wants to delete both the table’s metadata and its data files. They execute the following command: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS sales_data ; After running this command, the table no longer appears in the result of the SHOW TABLES command, but the data files still exist in the storage location. Which of the following explains why the data files still exist while the metadata was deleted?