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Drop Partition in ALTER TABLE: to drop a particular partition for a table.
This removes the data and metadata for this partition. The data is actually moved to the .Trash/Current directory if Trash is configured, unless 'purge' is true, but the metadata is completely lost. An error message will be issued if the partition does not exist, unless 'ifExists' is true. Note: purge is always false when the target is a view.
The syntax of this command is: