In hive,can we change location of managed/external table

Question

In hive,can we change location of managed/external table if yes how. After changing location will it behave like external table or internal table

Answer 1

yes, it's possible. And if you are looking for an external table location change, please use an alter script like below ALTER TABLE users SET LOCATION 'hdfs://hostname:port/source_folder_path'

Answer 2

I tried to search this question but I didnt get a proper answer yes we can change the location of managed table if we add location

CREATE TABLE weather (wban INT, date STRING, precip INT)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’
LOCATION ‘ /hive/data/weather’;

After creation we can change location by the below command

ALTER (DATABASE|SCHEMA) database_name SET LOCATION hdfs_path

Even if we change the location the table will behave as managed table only