title: Does DROP PARTITION delete data from external table in HIVE?
body: <p>An <strong>external</strong> table in HIVE is partitioned on year, month and day.</p>
  
  <p>So does the following query delete data from <strong>external</strong> table for the <strong>specific partitioned</strong> referenced in this query?:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>ALTER TABLE MyTable DROP IF EXISTS PARTITION(year=2016,month=7,day=11);
  </code></pre>