topic Permanently delete dropped table (Unity Catalog) in Data Engineering https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/permanently-delete-dropped-table-unity-catalog/m-p/46930#M28143 <P>The recommendation before dropping a table is to do a DELETE then VACUUM RETENTION 0 (recommended in DEV).</P><P>If you DROP the table without doing a DELETE|VACUUM, your table will be soft deleted with your entire data (permanently deletedin 30 days) and you cannot do a VACUUM anymore.</P><P>In such cases, can I safely delete those soft deleted table folders straight from my storage given that these tables will not be used anymore? I want to do a cleanup in my storage and save cost.</P> Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:33:31 GMT scrimpton 2023-09-30T02:33:31Z Permanently delete dropped table (Unity Catalog) https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/permanently-delete-dropped-table-unity-catalog/m-p/46930#M28143 <P>The recommendation before dropping a table is to do a DELETE then VACUUM RETENTION 0 (recommended in DEV).</P><P>If you DROP the table without doing a DELETE|VACUUM, your table will be soft deleted with your entire data (permanently deletedin 30 days) and you cannot do a VACUUM anymore.</P><P>In such cases, can I safely delete those soft deleted table folders straight from my storage given that these tables will not be used anymore? I want to do a cleanup in my storage and save cost.</P> Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:33:31 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/permanently-delete-dropped-table-unity-catalog/m-p/46930#M28143 scrimpton 2023-09-30T02:33:31Z