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Doc: Add DELETE ORPHAN-FILES example to Hive page #11896

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Expand Up @@ -782,6 +782,15 @@ Enter a query to expire snapshots having the following timestamp: `2021-12-09 05
ALTER TABLE test_table EXECUTE expire_snapshots('2021-12-09 05:39:18.689000000');
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### `DELETE ORPHAN-FILES`

Used to remove files which are not referenced in any metadata files of an Iceberg table and can thus be considered "orphaned".
The function is available with the following syntax:
```sql
ALTER TABLE table_a EXECUTE DELETE ORPHAN-FILES;
ALTER TABLE table_a EXECUTE DELETE ORPHAN-FILES OLDER THAN ('2021-12-09 05:39:18.689000000');
```

### Type compatibility

Hive and Iceberg support different set of types. Iceberg can perform type conversion automatically, but not for all
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