title: Is there a way to alter column in a hive table that is stored as ORC?
body: <p>There is already a question on Hive in general (
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17497560/is-there-a-way-to-alter-column-type-in-hive-table">Is there a way to alter column type in hive table?</a>). The answer to this question states that it is possible to change the schema with the alter table change command</p>
  
  <p>However, is this also possible if the file is stored as ORC?</p>