Table is being dropped when cluster terminates in comunity edition

[Sas]

Hi Expert

I have created an external table in databricks community edition. Table is external table. But when i cluster is terminated, i am not able to query the table any more. What is the reason? What i need to do so that table is not dropped. Table creation script is as below

DeltaTable.createOrReplace(spark)\

    .tableName("delta_internal_demo")\

    .addColumn("emp_id",'INT')\

    .addColumn("emp_name",'STRING')\

    .addColumn("gender",'STRING')\

    .addColumn("Salary",'INT')\

    .addColumn('Dept','STRING')\

    .property("description",'table created for demo purpose')\

    .location("/FileStore/tables/delta/archival_demo")\

    .execute()

[jose_gonzalez · Accepted solution]

This is an expected behavior to the community edition clusters. Upon termination of the cluster, the data is purged.

[Sas]

Thanks for your reply. I am seeing that data files are still there. But table defination is dropped. When i recreate the table with same script, i am able to access old data