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Discussion on: Best practices for AWS Athena

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Stephen Sennett

Nice work! The hardest thing I found when first working with JSON was flattening the rows before processing it; a trick needed with Hive which I'd never seen before. Such a tricky tool to learn, but super-powerful once you have it.

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Christopher Thompson H.

Oh yeah, I think that in itself is also part of the difficulty of working with JSON with the SQL standard. In this case, as Athena is under Presto, although there are functions to work under that nomenclature, it is a bit complex if we talk about custom structures. Very good tip!