Lets say you created a schema and a table as below CREATE OR REPLACE SCHEMA TIME_TRAVEL_SCHEMA DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS =10; CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE TIME_TRAVEL_SCHEMA.TIME_TRAVEL_TABLE (ID NUMBER) DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS =20; Later you dropped the schema. In this scenario what data retention value will be honored for the table, if we need to retrieve the table data