title: How to drop a column from a columnfamily in Hbase?
body: <p>To drop a column family, we have below commands.</p>
  
  <pre><code>hbase&gt; disable tablename
  hbase&gt; alter 'tablename',{NAME=&gt;'COLFAM NAME',METHOD=&gt;'delete}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If there is a columnfamily: 'empdetails' in a table 'emptable' with columns: 'col1,col2', is there a way to delete a particular column from a column family ?
  Im not going to implement it but this is just for my knowledge and to know if there is such possibility.</p>