When a table is dropped in Delta Lake, the table is removed from the catalog and the data is deleted. This is because Delta Lake is a transactional storage layer that provides ACID guarantees. When a table is dropped, the transaction log is updated to reflect the deletion of the table and the data is deleted from the underlying storage. References:
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