Modern warehouses store JSON natively, and querying it well separates strong data engineers from the rest. The signal is path access plus unnesting, and a clear call on when to flatten hot fields versus keep the schema-on-read flexibility.
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Modern warehouses store JSON natively, and querying it well separates strong data engineers from the rest. The signal is path access plus unnesting, and a clear call on when to flatten hot fields versus keep the schema-on-read flexibility.
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