In order to prevent accidental commits to production data, a senior data engineer has instituted a policy that all development work will reference clones of Delta Lake tables. After testing both DEEP and SHALLOW CLONE, development tables are created using SHALLOW CLONE. A few weeks after initial table creation, the cloned versions of several tables implemented as Type 1 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) stop working. The transaction logs for the source tables show that VACUUM was run the day before. Which statement describes why the cloned tables are no longer working?
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