QuestionQ81

Load and leverage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

A user works with semi-structured data in Snowflake.

What should be used to retrieve a specific element from a VARIANT column?

Explanation

The : colon operator traverses a path in a VARIANT column to extract the specified field or element. PARSE_JSON() converts JSON text to a VARIANT value, :: performs an explicit type cast, and FLATTEN() produces rows from nested data.

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