Is there a way to alter column type in hive table?

Question

The current schema is:

hive> describe tableA;
OK
id      int
ts      timestamp

I want to change ts column to be BIGIN

Answer 1

Found the solution:

ALTER TABLE tableA CHANGE ts ts BIGINT AFTER id;

See this for complete details: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-AlterColumn