CROSS JOIN UNNEST in Presto

CROSS JOIN UNNEST in Presto

What is Presto and what is the meaning of un-nesting an array?
As the data grows, it becomes trickier to hold

CROSS JOIN UNNEST in Presto

CROSS JOIN UNNEST – It is simply used to flatten an array, flattening means converting an Array, Map or Row in a flat relation by converting it into multiple rows (one row for every value in array)
Sample table

Presto

Select Name,Emp_id,expertise
from Employee
CROSS JOIN UNNEST(Subject) as t(expertise)

If there are multiple arrays

Select Name,Emp_id,expertise,phone_num
from Employee
CROSS JOIN UNNEST(Subject,Phone) as t(expertise,phone_num)


Hive Query

Select Name,Emp_id,expertise
from Employee
LATERAL VIEW explode(Subject) myTable1 as expertise

If there are two columns to be unnested then

Select Name,Emp_id,expertise,Phone
from Employee
LATERAL VIEW explode(Subject) myTable1 as expertise
LATERAL VIEW explode(Phone) myTable2 as Phone

Knowing when and how to do unnesting is very important as there will be multiple instances where a tough problem can be solved using Cross Join Unnest.

We have also created a video on Cross Join unnest to explain it in a better way, Do check out the
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