Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Posted by, Thomas Park, Senior Software Engineer, Google BigQuery Many types of computations can be difficult or impossible to express in SQL. Loops, complex conditionals, and non-trivial string parsing or transformations are all common examples. What can you do when you need to perform these operations but your data lives in a SQL-based Big data tool? Is it po
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