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SnowPro Core Certification Study Guide
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This chapter focuses on how to work with semi-structured and unstructured data. Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and not everything fits neatly into rows and columns. Semi-structured data such as JSON and XML, as well as unstructured data such as images and videos, are increasingly common in modern analytics. Understanding how to manage and analyze these formats is crucial for deriving insights and building advanced solutions.
In this chapter, you’ll master essential concepts such as using the VARIANT data type for loading raw semi-structured data and manipulating that data using built-in functions. Additionally, you’ll explore the different types of URLs available for handling files in cloud storage and some Snowflake file functions used to interact with files stored in cloud storage.
Throughout this chapter, you’ll delve deeper into directory tables in Snowflake, which are not separate database...